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Basri, Tomorrow's Champion

Basri, Tomorrow's Champion

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {W} · White commander

{W}, {T}, Exert Basri: Create a 1/1 white Cat creature token with lifelink. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.) Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, Cats you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
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What Basri, Tomorrow's Champion actually does

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What a Basri, Tomorrow's Champion deck wants

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Best cards for Basri, Tomorrow's Champion

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Reconnaissance1 mana
  2. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  3. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  4. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  5. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  6. Genji Glove5 mana
  7. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  8. Tiller Engine2 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Basri, Tomorrow's Champion1 mana
  2. Clockwork Droid2 mana
  3. Glory-Bound Initiate2 mana
  4. Gust Walker2 mana
  5. Oketra's Avenger2 mana
  6. Steward of Solidarity2 mana
  7. Devoted Crop-Mate3 mana
  8. Rhet-Crop Spearmaster3 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Ocelot Pride1 mana
  2. Ajani's Pridemate2 mana
  3. Helpful Hunter2 mana
  4. Lion Sash2 mana
  5. Arcbound Mouser1 mana
  6. Garrison Cat1 mana
  7. Leonin Elder1 mana
  8. Leonin Vanguard1 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  5. Mite Overseer4 mana
  6. Phantom General4 mana
  7. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  8. Mother of Runes1 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Erode1 mana
  7. Getaway Glamer1 mana
  8. Unwanted Remake1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Harsh Mercy3 mana
  8. Retribution of the Meek3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Templar Knight2 mana
  4. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  5. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  6. Loyal Tutor1 mana
  7. Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
  8. Search for Glory3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  4. Smothering Tithe4 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Caretaker's Talent3 mana

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