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Asmodeus the Archfiend
Legendary Creature — Devil God · {4}{B}{B} · Black commander
What Asmodeus the Archfiend 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{B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards.
- Activated ability{B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.
- Replacement effect · draw_replacementIf you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead.
What an Asmodeus the Archfiend deck needs
Plays as draw engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- card draw (each draw is banked face down until you return them all)
- life to pay for the return
The Asmodeus the Archfiend deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 7× 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
- 9× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Asmodeus the Archfiend
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.
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
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Asmodeus the Archfiend
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Asmodeus the Archfiend is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Asmodeus the Archfiend + Necrotic Ooze + Skirge Familiar12,125 decks
- Asmodeus the Archfiend + Necrotic Ooze + K'rrik, Son Of Yawgmoth + Sheoldred, The Apocalypse6,228 decks
- Asmodeus the Archfiend + Koh, The Face Stealer + Skirge Familiar305 decks
- Asmodeus the Archfiend + Quicksilver Elemental + Skirge Familiar86 decks
- Asmodeus the Archfiend + Necrotic Ooze + K'rrik, Son Of Yawgmoth + Starving Revenant76 decks
- Asmodeus the Archfiend + Necrotic Ooze + Mind Over Matter20 decks
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