Mila, Crafty Companion // Lukka, Wayward Bonder
The two faces of this modal double-faced card point at different games, and in practice most builds are running it for the back. Mila, Crafty Companion is a defensive package that presumes a battlefield it does nothing to assemble: the loyalty trigger only pays out when opponents have your planeswalkers to swing at, and the draw clause profits when they aim spells and abilities at your permanents. It reads like glue for a superfriends board, a 2/3 wrapped around two reactive triggers keyed off the opponent's aggression rather than your own plan. Lukka, Wayward Bonder is what those decks actually want. The plus is a rummage that converts overflow into cards and doubles the yield when the discard is a creature; the minus-two reanimates from your graveyard with haste on a one-turn lease before exile snatches it back. That is Unburial Rites logic compressed into a loyalty ability: the plus stocks the yard, the minus spends it, and the two feed each other across turns. The ultimate turns every creature's arrival into a burn trigger scaled to its power, rewarding the same reanimation churn the minus already invites. Because you choose a face on the way in, the halves never have to cohere: a graveyard toolbox whose front side is a mode that stays in your hand most games, cast toward only when the opponent's plan makes those reactive triggers worth the tempo.




