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A-Cosmos Elixir

KHM · rare · Released 2021-12-09

Power

brawl
fringetier-2Strong staple
commander
fringeStrong staple

Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).

Derived from the 7 atoms below.

under

below rate

incremental

minor value alone

modular

fits anywhere

scales

scales up

rigid

one mode

broad

broadly useful

sticky

hard to remove

Commander Bracket

Not yet bracketed (or genuinely unplaceable).

Archetypes

positive:
lifegaincontrol
negative:
aggroburn

Roles

repeatable-pure-drawlifegain-payoffscrycard-advantage

Risks

slow-setuprequires-life-total-high

Mechanics

mech-scry

Typal

synergy:

anti:

Structural

triggered-ability

Rationale

4cmc artifact with a conditional end-step trigger. If your life total exceeds starting total (20 in Brawl), draw a card; otherwise, gain 2 life and scry 1. Signature in lifegain payoff and control decks that can naturally spike life total. Slow setup makes it anti-aggro/burn (slots wasted on defense). The tension between the draw payoff and the lifegain fallback makes it awkward in pure card-draw shells but strong in dedicated lifegain strategies.

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