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Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

Legendary Creature — Snake Samurai · {2}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander

Whenever an Aura or Equipment you control enters, create a 2/2 red Spirit creature token with menace. At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
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What Chishiro, the Shattered Blade actually does

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What a Chishiro, the Shattered Blade deck needs

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

The Chishiro, the Shattered Blade deck plan

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

Best cards for Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

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.

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

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

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  5. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  6. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  7. The Earth Crystal4 mana
  8. High Score3 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  3. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  4. Wrenn and Seven5 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Hanweir Garrison3 mana
  7. Rampant Frogantua3 mana
  8. Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana

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

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  5. Duskshell Crawler2 mana
  6. Sphere Grid2 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. Gruul War Chant4 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Castle Embereth0 mana
  2. Finale of Devastation2 mana
  3. Great Train Heist1 mana
  4. Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
  5. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  6. Rising of the Day3 mana
  7. Assault Formation2 mana
  8. Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Beast Within3 mana
  3. Nature's Claim1 mana
  4. Crush1 mana
  5. Emerald Charm1 mana
  6. Naturalize2 mana
  7. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  8. Natural State1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Summoner's Pact0 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. Needle Storm3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  5. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  6. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Sticky Fingers1 mana

Combos with Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Chishiro, the Shattered Blade is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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