Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

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Character Background

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician is the kind of Legacy-level nightmare that turns grim doctrine into incremental card advantage: a Human Cleric with Protection from Humans who, for a payment of 1 life and a sacrifice, immediately shrinks a creature with a -1/-1 counter while replacing itself by drawing. In practice, that’s hard-to-ignore value because the counters fuel his second ability—{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate—letting you magnify every -1/-1 counter already on the board, so your removals keep worsening enemies long after the first hit. This supports a control-to-combo value plan, where you trade resources early, then snowball via repeated proliferations to lock down threats and grind opponents out. Deckbuild around proliferation: include reliable counter sources (and recursion for extra sacrifices) while pairing with cards that naturally place -1/-1 counters, like grindy black engines, to maximize each turn’s “pay life, sacrifice, draw, proliferate” loop.

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