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Arvinox, the Mind Flail

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Horror · {4}{B}{B}{B} · Black commander

Arvinox isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own. At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

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What Arvinox, the Mind Flail 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among
• AbilityArvinox isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own.

What an Arvinox, the Mind Flail deck needs

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

• mana of any colour to cast opponents' permanents (it exiles the bottom of each opponent's library)
• theft effects (it is a creature with three permanents you don't own)

The Arvinox, the Mind Flail deck plan

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

• 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 12× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 12× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 8× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands

Best cards for Arvinox, the Mind Flail

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