Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace

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Character Background

Legate Lanius, Caesar’s Ace reads like a thematic enforcer: a 2/2 for {2}{B}{R} who culls enemy boards on arrival and grows off the bloodletting, fitting best in an attrition-focused midrange or multiplayer-chaos deck that wants tempo swings and long-term value. Decimate’s “each opponent sacrifices a tenth, rounded up” is brutal against token strategies and scales well in multiplayer, and every forced sacrifice pumps Lanius, turning a single play into a snowballing threat you can close with combat. Build around him with cards that capitalize on opponents’ creatures dying—Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat converts those sacrifices into incremental reach—and include cheap removal or evasion/pump (trample, haste, or cheap burn) to turn counters into finished games. He also pairs with planeswalkers or sweepers that leave you standing after the cull. In short: deploy Lanius to reset boards, leverage death triggers for value, and give him routes to close once he’s grown.

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