Sophia, Dogged Detective

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Sophia arrives with Tiny, a legendary 2/2 Dog token with trample, so the plan starts working the turn she lands. Whenever a Dog you control deals combat damage to a player, you create a Food and investigate. Her second ability turns those leftovers into power: pay {1} and sacrifice an artifact token to put a +1/+1 counter on each Dog. The deck plays extra Dogs and token makers, attacks with small evasive or trampling bodies, and spends Clues and Food on counters or cards depending on what the board needs.

In the recorded games, the deck rarely raced. It built a wide board of Dogs, drew a steady stream of Clues and used Food sacrifices to make every attacker bigger. Academy Manufactor stood out by turning each Food or Clue into three different tokens, which fed both the mana and the counter ability. A few lists leaned toward suiting up Sophia with equipment instead. The token count gave it some resilience to board wipes, but the damage came in slowly, so faster combo decks could finish before the Dogs got big enough.