This is a W/B lifegain-aristocrats deck that turns Amalia Benavides Aguirre into a growing threat and a repeatable one-sided board wipe. A dense pack of cheap "creature enters, gain 1 life" and "creature dies, drain" bodies turns every creature entering or dying into lifegain. Each lifegain makes Amalia explore and grow toward exactly 20 power, which destroys every other creature. Mass reanimation, sacrifice outlets and protection then rebuild the board, while lifegain-to-drain payoffs bleed opponents out. How it wins: It wipes opponents' boards when Amalia hits exactly 20 power, rebuilds its own creatures from the graveyard, and kills through stacked lifegain-to-life-loss drains or a huge Amalia carrying lifelink and trample. Key roles: - Lifegain trigger engines: Cheap creatures and enchantments gain life whenever creatures enter or die, so every body that hits the battlefield or graveyard makes Amalia explore. Delney, Streetwise Lookout doubles these small creatures' triggers. (Soul Warden, Impassioned Orator, Delney, Streetwise Lookout) - Counter growth and the 20-power wipe: Extra counters and proliferate tune Amalia's power to exactly 20 to clear every other creature, while other lifegain-counter creatures grow alongside her. Lurking Chupacabra shrinks enemy creatures on each explore. (Heliod, Sun-Crowned, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Lurking Chupacabra) - Survive and rebuild: Indestructibility, blink and mass reanimation keep key creatures through the wipe or bring the whole team back. Mass returns then set off a burst of enter-the-battlefield lifegain, which chains more explores. (Selfless Spirit, Eerie Interlude, Rally the Ancestors) - Aristocrat sacrifice loop: Free sacrifice outlets turn the small lifegain creatures into death triggers, card draw and scry. These feed the graveyard for reanimation and keep lifegain flowing. (Viscera Seer, Zulaport Cutthroat, Skullclamp) - Lifegain-to-damage finishers: Payoffs convert each life gained into opponent life loss, or punish opponents' own spells, so the life engine doubles as the kill. (Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Marauding Blight-Priest, Kambal, Consul of Allocation) - Tutor and toolbox access: Rangers and Recruiter fetch the cheap lifegain and protection creatures, keeping the engine stocked and Amalia shielded. (Ranger of Eos, Recruiter of the Guard, Mother of Runes)

Amalia decklist

• 7× Plains
• 5× Swamp
• Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• Shadowspear
• Arcane Signet
• Command Tower
• Unburial Rites
• Bojuka Bog
• Ranger of Eos
• Blood Artist
• Dread Return
• Living Death
• Mother of Runes
• Phyrexian Reclamation
• Recruiter of the Guard
• Rogue's Passage
• Scoured Barrens
• Skullclamp
• Soul Warden
• Serra Ascendant
• Impassioned Orator
• Pristine Talisman
• Grim Haruspex
• Sevinne's Reclamation
• Reanimate
• Auriok Champion
• Forbidden Orchard
• Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• Dark Confidant
• Soul's Attendant
• Cartel Aristocrat
• Viscera Seer
• Shambling Vent
• Benevolent Bodyguard
• Anguished Unmaking
• Eerie Interlude
• Selfless Spirit
• High Market
• Mistveil Plains
• Zulaport Cutthroat
• Authority of the Consuls
• Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• Fetid Heath
• Caves of Koilos
• Return to the Ranks
• Deathgreeter
• Command the Dreadhorde
• Ranger-Captain of Eos
• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• Rally the Ancestors
• Isolated Chapel
• Suture Priest
• Tombstone Stairwell
• Karlov of the Ghost Council
• Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
• Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• Oversold Cemetery
• Walking Atlas
• Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• Lurking Chupacabra
• Bloodchief Ascension
• Nomad Stadium
• Vault of Champions
• Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• Marauding Blight-Priest
• Witch's Clinic
• Priest of Fell Rites
• Fleshtaker
• Rite of Oblivion
• The Meathook Massacre
• Cathar Commando
• Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
• Hopeful Initiate
• Obscura Storefront
• Ascend from Avernus
• Plaza of Heroes
• Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• Spectrum Sentinel
• Distinguished Conjurer
• Barad-dûr
• Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• Stroke of Midnight
• Bartolomé del Presidio
• Elenda's Hierophant
• Shadowy Backstreet
• Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• Case of the Uneaten Feast
• Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose