Ayara, First of Locthwain, commands a mono-black aristocrat engine focused on gradual table-wide attrition and explosive burst damage. The primary plan creates a steady stream of recursive creatures and tokens using Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Jadar to trigger Ayara and Blood Artist effects. Sacrificing these creatures fuels card draw through Ayara and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. The secondary plan leverages heavy black devotion and mana doublers like Crypt Ghast, Cabal Coffers, and Nykthos; Shrine to Nyx; to execute lethal burst finishes with Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Army of the Damned, or a massive Exsanguinate, amplified by Bloodletter of Aclazotz.
Ayara, First of Locthwain, commands a mono-black aristocrat engine focused on gradual table-wide attrition and explosive burst damage. The primary plan creates a steady stream of recursive creatures and tokens using Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Jadar to trigger Ayara and Blood Artist effects. Sacrificing these creatures fuels card draw through Ayara and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. The secondary plan leverages heavy black devotion and mana doublers like Crypt Ghast, Cabal Coffers, and Nykthos; Shrine to Nyx; to execute lethal burst finishes with Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Army of the Damned, or a massive Exsanguinate, amplified by Bloodletter of Aclazotz.