Tellah, Great Sage

Gameplan

Cast big noncreature spells to flood the board with Hero tokens, draw two cards off any spell costing 4+, and eventually fire off an 8+ mana spell to sacrifice Tellah and burn every opponent. You ramp into expensive X-burn and instants/sorceries, using the tokens as fodder and the card draw to keep the chain going.

Key Cards

• Comet, Stellar Pup — A planeswalker that loops activations and pairs with the token/value plan while padding your board.
• Mizzix's Mastery — Recasts a giant spell from your graveyard cheaply, easily clearing 8 mana for Tellah's burn finisher.
• Fork — Copying expensive instants and sorceries triggers Tellah twice for tokens, draw, and potential damage.
• Aetherflux Reservoir — All the Hero tokens and spell triggers feed life gain into a 50-damage payoff.
• Jeska's Will — Explosive ritual mana to power out the 8+ mana spells that turn Tellah into a one-shot wincon.
• Banefire — An uncounterable X burn spell that both draws you cards and can be the 8-mana trigger for Tellah's damage.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and rituals (Mana Geyser, Seething Song, Dockside Extortionist) to consistently hit the 8-mana threshold, plus copy effects like Reverberate and Twincast to double triggers. Tighten the curve toward big-payoff X spells and tutors (Mystical Tutor, Merchant Scroll) so you can reliably assemble a one-shot Tellah kill. Round out with protection like Veil of Summer and Deflecting Swat to keep the engine and finisher safe.