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Cao Ren, Wei Commander

Cao Ren, Wei Commander

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier Warrior · {2}{B}{B} · Black commander

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.) When Cao Ren enters, you lose 3 life.
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What Cao Ren, Wei Commander actually does

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What a Cao Ren, Wei Commander deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Cao Ren, Wei Commander

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Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  4. Lotus Field0 mana
  5. Mortuary Mire0 mana
  6. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  7. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  8. Witch's Cottage0 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. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 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

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 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. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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