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Brallin, Skyshark Rider

Brallin, Skyshark Rider

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · {3}{R} · Red commander

Partner with Shabraz, the Skyshark (When this creature enters, target player may put Shabraz into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you discard a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Brallin and it deals 1 damage to each opponent. {R}: Target Shark gains trample until end of turn.
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What Brallin, Skyshark Rider actually does

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What a Brallin, Skyshark Rider deck needs

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

The Brallin, Skyshark Rider deck plan

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

Best cards for Brallin, Skyshark Rider

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.

Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards

  1. Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
  2. Fomori Vault0 mana
  3. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  4. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  5. Artist's Talent2 mana
  6. Collector's Vault2 mana
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun2 mana
  8. Key to the City2 mana

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

  1. Marauding Mako1 mana
  2. Jaws, Relentless Predator5 mana
  3. Thunderhead Gunner5 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Cacophony Scamp1 mana
  2. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  3. Walking Ballista0 mana
  4. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  5. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  6. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
  7. Opal Palace0 mana
  8. Surge Conductor3 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Gamble1 mana
  7. Hoarding Dragon5 mana
  8. Shrine Steward5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Herald's Horn3 mana
  4. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Combos with Brallin, Skyshark Rider

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Brallin, Skyshark Rider is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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