Hellkite Tyrant

Hellkite Tyrant

Mana Cost: {4}{R}{R}

Type: Creature — Dragon

Oracle Text:
Flying, trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Power/Toughness: 6/5

Rarity: rare

Prints: View all prints (1) →

Expansion: Ravnica Remastered

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Character Background

Hellkite Tyrant reads like a dragon of acquisitive menace—flier and trampler that turns combat damage into an artifact heist—so it best supports a value/combo midrange plan that ramps into a late-game alternate win rather than pure aggro. In practice you attack to steal mana rocks and card-advantage artifacts to lock opponents out, then lean on artifact token generators and cheap artifacts (artifact lands, Myr or Thopter producers) to build toward the twenty-artifact victory. Practical deckbuilding tips: include artifact recursion and reuse like Goblin Welder-style effects, sacrifice outlets to convert captured artifacts into card advantage, and protection for the dragon (Lightning Greaves or similar) so it connects. Extra-combat triggers (double strike or an extra combat phase) are especially potent because each successful hit steals again, snowballing the board. Overall Hellkite Tyrant is a tempo-value centerpiece: steal resources to deny opponents while you assemble an artifact engine that can outright win the game.

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