Baba Lysaga, Night Witch:
the mixed-type sacrifice deck

Most sacrifice commanders want creatures. Baba Lysaga doesn't care what you feed her, she cares how many different kinds of thing you feed her. That one clause changes the whole deck.

{1}{B}{G} · Legendary Creature, Human Warlock · 3/3

B/G · Night Witch

Tap, sacrifice up to three permanents: if there were three or more card types among the sacrificed permanents, each opponent loses 3 life, you gain 3 life, and you draw three cards.

The best version of her ability needs an artifact, an enchantment, and a land in the yard at the same time, not three creatures. That's a real, if narrow, design constraint, and it's exactly the kind of thing Deckaugur's tag-matching can and can't see: it knows a card is a sacrifice outlet and knows a card produces lifegain or card draw, but it has no idea Baba specifically wants type diversity. That nuance stays with you, the deck-builder. The engine gets you most of the way, it doesn't replace reading the card.

What the suggestion engine actually found

We ran Baba Lysaga through Deckaugur's own findSuggestions, the same ranking the WHISPERS FROM THE LIBRARY panel shows you mid-build, with no deck yet, just the commander. Her enables and cares tags pull hard toward lifegain and drain, and the top of the list shows it:

None of this requires Baba's ability to resolve even once, it's a lifegain-and-draw shell that happens to sit under a sacrifice commander, which tells you something honest about where her real power comes from.

The grade, and what it's actually measuring

We let the suggestion list fill 99 slots (role-coverage cards first, then pure synergy score) and ran it through gradeDeck, the same function behind every grade badge in the app.

The breakdown explains the number better than the number does. Draw landed at 16 against a target of 8, and creatures at 39 against 15, the suggestion list is so lifegain-dense that both roles overshot without trying. Ramp (3 of 8), removal (3 of 6), and board wipes (0 of 2) all came up short, because nothing in Baba's own tags asks for them, and a pure synergy-ranked list won't volunteer cards it has no reason to rank highly. That's not a flaw in the deck idea, it's the grading formula doing its job: synergy density alone caps at 30 of the available 100 points, and this list earned the full 30. Role coverage is a separate, additive axis, and here it's where the real gap is. Our own removal article walks through why this specific gap, more payoffs than answers, is the single most common way a synergistic deck underperforms at the table.

A real interaction the engine flagged

Deckaugur's combo detector looks for two cards whose tags bridge each other, card A enables something card B cares about, and card B enables something card A cares about, restricted to tags that represent actual triggerable events rather than loose theme overlap. In this list it found 244 such pairs and five larger engine hubs (one connects 57 cards), which says more about how densely lifegain and card-draw tags overlap in the pool than about any single combo. The cleanest individual pair: Sheoldred, the Apocalypse doubles your lifegain and drains opponents on their draw step, and Well of Lost Dreams converts exactly that lifegain into cards, a real, mutually reinforcing two-card line you'd actually want in the deck, not just two cards that happen to share a tag.

Building your own

Baba Lysaga rewards a wider net than most sacrifice commanders: artifacts and enchantments aren't filler here, they're half her ability. Start from the lifegain-and-draw core the engine surfaces, then deliberately shop for ramp and removal in black and green, the two roles this list under-filled, and the scoring article explains exactly how WHISPERS weighs a card that both produces a tag and pays it off versus one that only produces it, the distinction that decides what climbs to the top of your own suggestion list.

Further reading

• Commander playstyles: the full six-deck series, and why these six.
• How synergy scoring works: what the score measures and why warnings fire.
• Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel: a different lifegain shell, built around a repeatable drain instead of a sacrifice outlet.
• Lathril, Blade of the Elves: another B/G commander, a completely different plan.