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Araumi of the Dead Tide

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard · {1}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

{T}, Exile cards from your graveyard equal to the number of opponents you have: Target creature card in your graveyard gains encore until end of turn. The encore cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile the creature card and pay its mana cost: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

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What Araumi of the Dead Tide actually does

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

• Activated ability{T}, Exile cards from your graveyard equal to the number of opponents you have: Target creature card in your graveyard gains encore until end of turn. The encore cost is equal to its mana cost.

What an Araumi of the Dead Tide deck needs

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

• creatures with enter or attack value in your graveyard (it gives one encore)
• self-mill

The Araumi of the Dead Tide deck plan

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

• 16× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 10× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Araumi of the Dead Tide

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 Araumi of the Dead Tide

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Araumi of the Dead Tide is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Araumi of the Dead Tide + Panharmonicon + Gray Merchant Of Asphodel934 decks
• Araumi of the Dead Tide + Vizier Of Tumbling Sands + Mesmeric Orb465 decks
• Araumi of the Dead Tide + Fatestitcher + Mesmeric Orb188 decks
• Araumi of the Dead Tide + Mirror-Mad Phantasm120 decks
• Araumi of the Dead Tide + Kelpie Guide + Mesmeric Orb82 decks
• Araumi of the Dead Tide + Unctus, Grand Metatect + Vizier Of Tumbling Sands58 decks

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