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Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
Legendary Creature — Vampire Druid · {2}{B} · Black commander
Deathtouch
Whenever a creature you control with power or toughness 1 or less dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
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What Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist 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 · deathWhenever a creature you control with power or toughness 1 or less dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
- Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
What an Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
- drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
- small creatures (power 1 or less — its text only counts them)
The Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× A creature under the commander's power cap — its text only counts them
- 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- 10× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 5× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 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
Best cards for Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
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.
A creature under the commander's power cap — its text only counts them
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Blood Artist2 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince0 mana
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Marionette Apprentice2 mana
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
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Nurgle's Rot1 mana
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
- Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Enduring Tenacity4 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Dark Privilege2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 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
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 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
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Combos with Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist + Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler791 decks
- Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist + Veinwitch Coven + Phyrexian Altar158 decks
- Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist + Veinwitch Coven + Phyrexian Altar158 decks
- Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist + Trudge Garden + Ashnod's Altar + Chatterfang, Squirrel General15 decks
- Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist + Mortuary + Bolas's Citadel + Viscera Seer8 decks
- Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist + Mortuary + Bolas's Citadel + Carrion Feeder5 decks