Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Gameplan

Flood the board with creatures and tokens, then turn their entrances and deaths into incremental drain that ends the table. Elas il-Kor converts every ETB into life and every death into damage, so you grind value while aristocrats sacrifice loops and token swarms whittle opponents to zero.

Key Cards

• Bastion of Remembrance — Doubles your death payoff so each creature death drains the whole table, stacking with Elas.
• Zulaport Cutthroat — Redundancy for the death-drain trigger, accelerating each opponent toward zero.
• Pitiless Plunderer — Turns dying creatures into Treasure, fueling explosive sacrifice loops.
• Ashnod's Altar — Free sacrifice outlet that loops tokens for repeated death triggers and mana.
• Grave Pact — Forces opponents to sacrifice creatures, multiplying death triggers and controlling boards.
• Cabal Coffers — Big black mana fuels recursion engines and X-spell token makers.

Upgrade Path

Add drain redundancy (Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Bastion of Remembrance) and free sacrifice outlets (Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder) to assemble loops faster. Include persist/undying enablers like Murderous Redcap and reanimation (Reanimate, Victimize) plus tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor) to find combos. Tighten the mana with fast rocks and ensure protection for Elas via Swiftfoot Boots or recursion to keep the engine online.