Hero card

Melancholic Poet

Creature - Elf Bard

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

Needs: Spells

Gives: Lifegain, Drain

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

Build a deck with Melancholic Poet as the hero

Makes it work

Withering Curse · Foolish Fate · Sanguine Indulgence · Lumaret's Favor · Follow the Lumarets · Efflorescence · End of the Hunt · Poison the Waters

Benefits from it

South Wind Avatar · Marauding Blight-Priest · Starscape Cleric · Leech Collector · Enduring Tenacity · Tigra, Feline Fury · Poisoner's Apprentice · Ulna Alley Shopkeep

Use instead if you don't have it

Kalastria Highborn · Vengeful Bloodwitch · Agate-Blade Assassin · Sanguine Syphoner · Postmortem Professor · Blood Hustler

Cards in the meta that answer it

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