Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie

Gameplan

Vanille is a value engine that mills you for resources and returns a permanent (land, creature, or artifact) on every cast, fueling a graveyard-centric BG strategy. You grind incremental advantage through self-mill and recursion, then either go wide/tall with reanimated threats or pursue the meld with Fang into Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance for a powerful payoff. Turn to turn you fill your yard, recur your best permanents, and out-value the table.

Key Cards

• Fang, Fearless l'Cie — The meld partner that transforms into Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance for a game-ending payoff.
• Eternal Witness — Doubles down on Vanille's recursion theme, repeatedly returning key permanents and spells.
• Meren of Clan Nel Toth — Provides recurring reanimation that synergizes perfectly with the self-mill plan.
• Animate Dead — Cheap reanimation to cheat fatties out of the graveyard Vanille fills.
• Altar of Dementia — Sac outlet plus mill engine that turns recurred creatures into card flow and graveyard fuel.
• Stitcher's Supplier — Cheap, repeatable self-mill that loads the yard for recursion and reanimation.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Birds of Paradise) and tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor) to assemble engines or the Fang package faster. Lean into a tight reanimator/aristocrats combo line with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed plus a free sac outlet, or loop creatures with Phyrexian Altar. Include graveyard insurance and protection like Heroic Intervention to defend Vanille and the meld.