Hero card

Callous Sell-Sword

Creature – Human Soldier

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

Needs: Counter +1/+1, Valiant

Gives: Adventure

In 1% of today's winning lists

Build a deck with Callous Sell-Sword as the hero

Makes it work

Emberheart Challenger · Seedglaive Mentor · Graduation Day · Lecturing Scornmage · Ultros, Obnoxious Octopus · Tackle Artist · The Emperor of Palamecia · Silent Hallcreeper

Winning decks play them together

Elusive Otter · Ancestral Anger · Full Bore · Drake Hatcher · Shore Up · Balmor, Battlemage Captain · Turn Inside Out · Secret Identity

Use instead if you don't have it

Lightless Evangel · Repeat Offender · Questing Druid · Lecturing Scornmage · Hungry Ghoul · Unburied Earthcarver

Cards in the meta that answer it

Requiting Hex (Dimir Aggro) · Burst Lightning (Izzet Elemental) · Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control)