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The Sackville-Bagginses
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Two-mana 2/2 that converts a spare permanent into a card plus a Treasure on arrival, then drains for every token you sacrifice. In a Treasure or token deck they turn incidental resources into a slow, steady clock.
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Gameplay notes
Treasures you crack for mana each drain the opponent for 1 — the deck's normal operation becomes damage. The enter sacrifice is optional; don't eat a real card without a reason.
Key synergies
Repeatedly blinking The Sackville-Bagginses retriggers the option to sacrifice an expendable artifact or creature for a card and a Treasure, with sacrificed tokens also causing life loss.
The Sackville-Bagginses can sacrifice the Master on entry to draw a card and trigger its graveyard payoff, while later sacrificed tokens make the opponent lose life and therefore mill through the Master.
Equipping The Sackville-Bagginses doubles both of their triggered abilities: their entry ability can sacrifice and convert two permanents separately, and each sacrificed token makes the opponent lose 2 life instead of 1.
Bard doubles both major parts of the entry ability: its extra-card draw becomes two cards, and the Treasure creation becomes two Treasures, giving The Sackville-Bagginses additional token sacrifices to drain with.
A Treasure every chapter means a drain every turn — though cracking them delays the Saga's Dragon, so choose which payoff you're playing for.
Smaug's upkeep Treasure is a free drain every turn when cracked, and both reward hoarding then spending Treasures.
Discarding The Sackville-Bagginses to chapter I can create a Soldier token; chapter II then returns it and its enters ability can sacrifice that token to draw a card and create a Treasure.
Chief Warg's Company continually supplies Wolf tokens that can be cashed in to The Sackville-Bagginses for a card and a Treasure, allowing the sacrifice effect to generate value without consuming an important nontoken creature.
Sacrificing the Pair to the entry trigger draws a card and creates a Treasure, while the Pair replaces itself with four power of Army counters.
The Sackville-Bagginses can create a Treasure before Smaug arrives, and every Treasure sacrificed for mana afterward both triggers Smaug to draw a card and triggers the Sackville-Bagginses to drain the opponent.
The Sackville-Bagginses can sacrifice the Barrel when they enter, drawing a card and creating a Treasure while also triggering the Barrel's creature-cheating ability.
Sacrificing a nontoken creature to their enters ability triggers Part in Friendship, so the sacrifice produces a card, a Treasure, and a replacement creature.
The Sackville-Bagginses can sacrifice an expendable Goblin, Orc, or Army when they enter, triggering The Great Goblin while also drawing a card and creating a Treasure that helps cast the exiled card.
Bejeweled Warg can repeatedly create Treasures when it connects, and spending those Treasures causes The Sackville-Bagginses to drain the opponent.
Orcrist can create multiple Treasures after combat damage, supplying mana tokens whose later sacrifices each trigger The Sackville-Bagginses.
A creature or artifact token sacrificed as Stir Up Trouble's additional cost also triggers The Sackville-Bagginses, adding life loss to the efficient removal spell.
Bolg's Company can sacrifice Goblin tokens for mana, and each Goblin token sacrificed this way also triggers The Sackville-Bagginses to drain the opponent.
Snowslope Hunter repeatedly converts creature or artifact tokens into impulse cards, and each token sacrificed to it also triggers The Sackville-Bagginses to drain the opponent.
The Treasure created by The Sackville-Bagginses entering triggers Fateful Discovery, so their sacrifice exchange draws an additional card.
Sacrificing Front Porch Sentries to the entry ability draws a card and creates a Treasure while also applying its death-triggered -1/-1, making it especially efficient sacrifice fodder.
Sacrificing Lake-town Lookout to the entry ability triggers recruit in addition to drawing a card and creating a Treasure, potentially leaving behind a Human token as replacement material.
The Saga's chapter II can provide a creature token for The Sackville-Bagginses to sacrifice, drawing a card and creating a Treasure while also triggering its token-sacrifice life-loss ability.
Gollum can be sacrificed to The Sackville-Bagginses, but it does not return automatically. Afterward, during a main phase with an empty stack, you may pay {2} and sacrifice another artifact or creature to activate Gollum's graveyard ability and return it to your hand.
The extra Army body can be sacrificed when The Sackville-Bagginses enter, converting part of Goblin-town Flunkies into a card and a Treasure while retaining the original 1/1.
When Tom, Bert, and William sacrifice a creature token, The Sackville-Bagginses also make the opponent lose 1 life, adding a damage payoff to expendable token fodder.
Supper for Spiders can produce Food tokens that later sacrifice themselves for life, with each Food sacrifice also triggering The Sackville-Bagginses.
Long-Bodied Grey Dog supplies a Treasure token, and sacrificing that Treasure for mana later triggers The Sackville-Bagginses to drain the opponent.
Dori creates a Treasure on entry, providing another token that can be spent for mana while triggering The Sackville-Bagginses.