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Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod · {2}{W}{B}{G} · Black/Green/White commander

Menace Other enchantment creatures you control have menace. Whenever Anikthea enters or attacks, exile up to one target non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Zombie creature in addition to its other types.

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What Anikthea, Hand of Erebos actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Anikthea enters or attacks, exile up to one target non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Zombie creature in additio
• Static ability · keyword_grantOther enchantment creatures you control have menace.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What an Anikthea, Hand of Erebos deck needs

Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• enchantments (its text counts them)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• creatures that profit from menace (it grants the team it)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Anikthea, Hand of Erebos deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 8× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens

Best cards for Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Anikthea, Hand of Erebos is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Three Blind Mice + Doubling Season1,452 decks
• Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Three Blind Mice + Barbara Wright813 decks
• Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Three Blind Mice + Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider34 decks
• Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Oblivion Ring + Life Finds A Way + Parallel Lives7 decks
• Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Oblivion Ring + Life Finds A Way + Doubling Season7 decks
• Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Oblivion Ring + Life Finds A Way + Anointed Procession4 decks

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