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Circu, Dimir Lobotomist

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {2}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Whenever you cast a blue spell, exile the top card of target player's library. Whenever you cast a black spell, exile the top card of target player's library. Your opponents can't cast spells with the same name as a card exiled with Circu.

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What Circu, Dimir Lobotomist actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a blue spell, exile the top card of target player's library.
• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a black spell, exile the top card of target player's library.
• Static ability · taxYour opponents can't cast spells with the same name as a card exiled with Circu.

What a Circu, Dimir Lobotomist deck needs

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

• stax pieces, taxes and hatebears that break parity in your favor
• cheap spells of any kind (its trigger fires on every cast)

The Circu, Dimir Lobotomist deck plan

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

• 14× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
• 19× A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Circu, Dimir Lobotomist

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.

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