Hero card

Hearth Elemental

Creature – Elemental

FinisherA big threat that ends the game: the deck has to survive until it can cast it

Needs: Graveyard, Big Mana

Gives: Adventure, Card Draw

In 9% of today's winning lists

Build a deck with Hearth Elemental as the hero

Makes it work

Broadside Barrage · Traumatic Critique · Prismari Charm · Seasoned Cryomancer · Soulbright Seeker · Flamebraider

Benefits from it

Sunderflock

Winning decks play them together

Get Out · Eddymurk Crab · Unsummon · Impractical Joke · Abrade · Opt · Sleight of Hand · Flow State

Use instead if you don't have it

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant · Vaultguard Trooper · Anticausal Vestige · Temur Tawnyback · Balin, Loremaster · Boughside Wanderers

Winning decks that play it

Izzet Elemental (4)

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control) · Bitter Triumph (Dimir Aggro)