Hero card

Embalmed Ascendant

Creature – Zombie

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

Needs: Sacrifice, Start your engines / Exhaust

Gives: Lifegain, Drain, Tokens

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

Build a deck with Embalmed Ascendant as the hero

Makes it work

Hour of Victory · Zahur, Glory's Past · Popular Egotist · Momentum Breaker · Risen Necroregent · Cauldron of Essence · Nesting Bot · Far Fortune, End Boss

Benefits from it

South Wind Avatar · Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Use instead if you don't have it

Kambal, Profiteering Mayor · Sanctum Lurker · Susurian Voidborn · Vampire Spawn · Soul-Shackled Zombie · Eriette of the Charmed Apple

Cards in the meta that answer it

Burst Lightning (Izzet Elemental) · Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Jeskai Revelation (4-Color Control)