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Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · {B} · Black commander

Deathtouch Whenever Ashnod attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, create a tapped Powerstone token. {5}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 3/3 colorless Zombie artifact creature token.
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What Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist actually does

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What an Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist deck wants

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Best cards for Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

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.

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  2. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  3. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  4. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  5. Liliana, the Last Hope3 mana
  6. Nest of Scarabs3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Grave Titan6 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  2. Skeleton Crew4 mana
  3. "Lifetime" Pass Holder1 mana
  4. Death Tyrant5 mana
  5. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
  6. Infestation Sage1 mana
  7. Nested Shambler1 mana
  8. Nurgle's Rot1 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  3. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  4. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  5. Eldritch Immunity1 mana
  6. Not Dead After All1 mana
  7. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
  8. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Mindcrank2 mana
  5. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  6. Codex Shredder1 mana
  7. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  8. Tomb Fortress0 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  2. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  3. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  4. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  5. Liliana, the Last Hope3 mana
  6. Nest of Scarabs3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Grave Titan6 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  8. Diabolic Intent2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Kederekt Parasite1 mana

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