Hero card

Black Mage's Rod

Artifact – Equipment

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Equipment, Spells

Gives: Drain, Artifacts, Equipment

Not in winning lists yet: read from the card text and the graph

Build a deck with Black Mage's Rod as the hero

Makes it work

Lead Pipe · Wizard's Staff · Red Mage's Rapier · Goblin Plate Mail · Hawkeye's Bow · Sage's Nouliths · Hard-Won Jitte · Monk's Fist

Benefits from it

Unassuming Sage · Vantress Transmuter · Splashy Spellcaster · Dark Knight's Greatsword

Use instead if you don't have it

Shredder's Armor · The Millennium Calendar · Lead Pipe · Wishclaw Talisman · Hawkeye's Bow · Monk's Fist

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control) · No More Lies (Azorius Control) · We Say Thee Nay! (Dimir Aggro)