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Captain Howler, Sea Scourge

Captain Howler, Sea Scourge

Legendary Creature — Shark Pirate · {2}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Whenever you discard one or more cards, target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn for each card discarded this way. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, you draw a card.
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What Captain Howler, Sea Scourge actually does

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What a Captain Howler, Sea Scourge deck wants

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Best cards for Captain Howler, Sea Scourge

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 the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  3. Frostcliff Siege3 mana
  4. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  5. Favorable Winds2 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  8. Shadowspear1 mana

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Secret Tunnel0 mana
  2. Crash Through1 mana
  3. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  4. Irenicus's Vile Duplication4 mana
  5. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  6. Frostcliff Siege3 mana
  7. Rhonas's Monument3 mana
  8. Thassa, God of the Sea3 mana

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

  1. Mox Diamond0 mana
  2. Desolate Lighthouse0 mana
  3. Fomori Vault0 mana
  4. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  5. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  6. Artist's Talent2 mana
  7. Collector's Vault2 mana
  8. Containment Construct2 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Suspend1 mana
  7. Snap2 mana
  8. Into the Flood Maw1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Displacement Wave2 mana
  3. Breaking Point3 mana
  4. Crack the Earth1 mana
  5. Filter Out3 mana
  6. Kozilek's Return3 mana
  7. Akki Blizzard-Herder2 mana
  8. Devastating Dreams2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Goblin Recruiter2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Rhystic Study3 mana
  6. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Combat Research1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Cryptothrall4 mana
  3. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  4. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

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