Major Teroh

Gameplan

Major Teroh is a mono-white flying beater that doubles as a one-sided wrath against black decks, but in most pods you're playing a midrange white control deck built around taxes, blink, and recurring removal. You curve out efficient creatures and value pieces, grind incremental advantage, and protect a board that wins through combat or a go-wide finisher. Teroh's activated ability is mostly a niche sideboard-style answer rather than your engine.

Key Cards

• Smothering Tithe — Premier mono-white ramp and mana engine to fuel a clunky white shell.
• Swords to Plowshares — Best-in-class cheap removal to clear blockers and protect your board.
• Land Tax — Fixes draws and fills your hand to offset white's card-advantage problem.
• Mangara, the Diplomat — Repeatable card draw that punishes attacks and creature spam, a rare white engine.
• Cathars' Crusade — Turns any token or blink strategy into an explosive board-wide threat.

Upgrade Path

Lean into mono-white's best engines—Smothering Tithe, Land Tax, Mangara, and Esper Sentinel—to fix white's card and mana weaknesses. Add a compact combo or overwhelming finisher (Approach of the Second Sun, or a tokens+Cathars' Crusade kill) so games close decisively, and round out interaction with Stax pieces like Drannith Magistrate and Authority of the Consuls. Treat Teroh's exile ability as a free metagame bonus rather than a build-around.