Ellie, Vengeful Hunter

Gameplan

Ellie turns expendable creatures into a steady damage clock and a resilient attacker. You flood the board with tokens and cheap bodies, then sacrifice them to Ellie's ability to ping opponents while keeping Ellie indestructible through combat and removal. Grind value with aristocrats payoffs and recursion until you sacrifice your way to victory or alpha strike with a hexproof-by-indestructible commander.

Key Cards

• Bastion of Remembrance — Turns every sacrifice into incremental drain across the whole table, multiplying Ellie's damage output.
• Blood Artist — Each sacrificed creature drains opponents and gains you life, offsetting Ellie's life payment.
• Pitiless Plunderer — Generates Treasure on every death, fueling more spells and ramp while you sacrifice fodder.
• Mayhem Devil — Pings opponents on every sacrifice, stacking direct damage alongside Ellie's ability.
• Goblin Bombardment — A free sac outlet that adds reach, letting you convert creatures even when not attacking with Ellie.
• Ophiomancer — Produces a free token every upkeep, an endless stream of sacrifice fodder.
• Skullclamp — Draws two cards off any 1-toughness token you sacrifice, refilling your hand engine.

Upgrade Path

Add a strong second Survivor partner to double your engine and access more enablers, then prioritize free sac outlets (Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder) and self-recurring fodder (Reassembling Skeleton, Bloodsoaked Champion) to make Ellie's activations near-infinite. Layer multiple death payoffs (Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant) so each sacrifice hits the whole table, and lean on lifegain or Treasure ramp to offset the 2-life cost. Top end with a combo finish like Persistent Petitioners-style loops or a Dictate-of-Erebos style recursion engine to convert board presence into a deterministic kill.