Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

MacCready, Lamplight Mayor

Mana value2EDHREC#3,619

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The Commander

Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, it gains skulk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)

Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater attacks you, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Guide

Gameplan

Deploy MacCready early and flood the board with small, evasive creatures (power 2 or less) that gain skulk on attack, making them nearly impossible to block. You chip in incremental damage with go-wide token swarms while the second ability turns opposing big attackers into a liability, draining them and gaining you life. Win by stacking anthems and team-wide evasion to alpha strike, or by grinding value off cheap creatures with sacrifice and recursion engines.

Strengths

Cheap two-mana commander that immediately enables an evasive go-wide plan
Skulk makes wide boards of small creatures very hard to block and great for combat damage
Punishes aggressive tables and discourages big attackers from targeting you
BW gives access to elite removal, recursion, and token support
Synergizes naturally with weenie tokens, anthems, and aristocrats

Weaknesses

Skulk only triggers on attack and only helps power 2 or less, so anthems can accidentally turn it off
Board wipes punish the go-wide strategy hard
Lacks built-in card advantage outside of supporting pieces
The second ability is purely defensive and irrelevant against non-combat or token-swarm decks
Individual creatures are weak, so the deck folds without a critical mass

Key Cards

Skullclamp — Turns your endless small creatures and tokens into a relentless card-draw engine.
Ankle Shanker — Gives your attacking team deathtouch and first strike, making skulking small creatures lethal blockers' nightmare.
Cathars' Crusade — Pumps the whole team on every token entering, though watch the power-2-or-less skulk threshold.
Bennie Bracks, Zoologist — Draws a card for each token on board, fueling go-wide token strategies in your colors.
Coat of Arms — Massively buffs tribal token boards for a one-turn evasive alpha strike.
Anointed Procession — Doubles token production, dramatically accelerating your wide-board plan.
Esper Sentinel — A power-1 attacker that draws cards and benefits from skulk on the attack.

Upgrade Path

Lean into a token doubler package (Anointed Procession, Parallel Lives effects) plus sacrifice payoffs like Zulaport Cutthroat and Bastion of Remembrance to convert your wide board into a kill. Add efficient card advantage (Skullclamp, Welcoming Vampire, Bennie Bracks) so you refuel after wipes, and tune anthems carefully so you don't push too many creatures above the power-2 skulk threshold. Top-end upgrades include a reliable haste enabler and a finisher like Craterhoof Behemoth or Cathars' Crusade overrun for the deciding swing.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Wide evasive alpha strike with skulking tokens and an anthem effect
▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist effects sacrificing small creatures
▸Incremental commander damage and chip damage from unblockable attackers
▸Life-drain from the big-attacker punishment ability over a long game

Archetypes

Tokens / Go-Wide — MacCready turns swarms of small tokens into evasive attackers via skulk.
Aristocrats — BW excels at sacrificing the cheap creatures you flood the board with for drain value.
Weenie Aggro — Cheap power-2-or-less creatures become unblockable threats that close games fast.
Pillowfort — The drain-and-gain trigger discourages opponents from attacking you with big creatures.