Hero card

Cauldron of Essence

Artifact

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

Needs: Sacrifice, Graveyard

Gives: Sacrifice, Lifegain, Drain

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

Build a deck with Cauldron of Essence as the hero

Makes it work

Popular Egotist · Rakdos, the Muscle · Umbral Collar Zealot · Tom, Bert, and William · Heirloom Auntie · Ice Cream Kitty · Acolyte of Aclazotz · Gollum the Abandoned

Benefits from it

Vengeful Bloodwitch · Esoteric Duplicator · Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar · Embalmed Ascendant · Voracious Vermin · Furious Forebear · Pestbrood Sloth · Unlucky Cabbage Merchant

Use instead if you don't have it

Dubious Delicacy · Debris Beetle · Sinister Monolith · Ark of Hunger · The Darkness Crystal · Repurposing Bay

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)