Dark Confidant

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Character Background

Dark Confidant is a quintessential value engine that fits best in aggressive midrange or tempo shells that can leverage steady card advantage while accepting incremental life loss; its 2/1 body pressures early board states and turns raw card flow into real tempo. Thematically it reads as a bargain: a wizard who trades secrets for vitality, draining the player as each revelation arrives. Practically, build around a low average converted mana cost—pack one-drops, two-mana removal and cheap evasive threats—so the life cost is usually minimal; include scry, cheap cantrips or top-deck manipulators to reduce high-cost surprises and consider running a small life-gain package or incremental lifelink creatures if your meta is burn-heavy. Dark Confidant also pairs well with discard or disruption strategies that want constant refuels, and benefits from redundancies (multiple cheap answer cards) rather than a few expensive bombs that can punish its ability. As a mythic staple, it rewards tight deck construction and aggressive, value-oriented game plans.

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