Hero card

Xande, Dark Mage

Legendary Creature – Human Wizard

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

Needs: Graveyard

Gives: Legendary

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

Build a deck with Xande, Dark Mage as the hero

Makes it work

Emet-Selch, Unsundered · Likeness Looter · Kitsa, Otterball Elite · Cephalid Inkmage · Souls of the Lost · Mindwhisker · Mind Drill Assailant · Starving Revenant

Use instead if you don't have it

Jecht, Reluctant Guardian · Obeka, Splitter of Seconds · Green Goblin · Fleem, Goben's Creation · Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch · Don & Raph, Hard Science

Cards in the meta that answer it

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