Hero card

Crime Novelist

Creature – Goblin Bard

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

Needs: Sacrifice, Counter +1/+1

Gives: Counter +1/+1, Landfall, Big Mana

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

Build a deck with Crime Novelist as the hero

Makes it work

Vaan, Street Thief · Adrenaline Jockey · Taurean Mauler · Wandertale Mentor · Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate · Bolg's Company · Boar-q-pine · Molten-Core Maestro

Benefits from it

Goblin Boarders · Undying Malice · Magmablood Archaic · Frilled Sparkshooter · Cindering Cutthroat · Dragonback Assault · Call the Mountain Chocobo · Choco-Comet

Use instead if you don't have it

Guy in the Chair · Eccentric Arachnologist · Frontline War-Rager · Adrenaline Jockey · Blazing Firesinger · Jeong Jeong, the Deserter

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Jeskai Revelation (4-Color Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control)