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Anje, Maid of Dishonor
Legendary Creature — Vampire · {2}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
What Anje, Maid of Dishonor 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 · otherWhenever Anje and/or one or more other Vampires you control enter, create a Blood token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
- Activated ability{2}, Sacrifice another creature or a Blood token: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
What an Anje, Maid of Dishonor deck needs
Plays as vampire typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander is a sacrifice outlet)
- artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures, Clues or Food on repeat)
- drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
- vampire creatures (its text counts them)
The Anje, Maid of Dishonor deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 5× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Anje, Maid of Dishonor
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.
Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Leechridden Swamp0 mana
- Marionette Apprentice2 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
- Mirkwood Bats4 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
- Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Blood Artist2 mana
- Indulgent Aristocrat1 mana
- Master of Dark Rites1 mana
- Blood Seeker2 mana
- Bloodghast2 mana
- Cordial Vampire2 mana
- Creeping Bloodsucker2 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Bloodghast2 mana
- Carrier Thrall2 mana
- Oathsworn Vampire2 mana
- Pawn of Ulamog3 mana
- Falkenrath Forebear3 mana
- Silversmote Ghoul3 mana
- Promise of Aclazotz // Foul Rebirth2 mana
- Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Anje, Maid of Dishonor
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Anje, Maid of Dishonor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Anje, Maid of Dishonor + Mortuary + Bolas's Citadel + Ashnod's Altar1 decks
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