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Davros, Dalek Creator

Legendary Artifact Creature — Alien Scientist · {1}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

Menace At the beginning of your end step, create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn. Then each opponent who lost 3 or more life this turn faces a villainous choice — You draw a card, or that player discards a card.

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What Davros, Dalek Creator 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn. Then each opponent who lost 3 or more life this turn faces
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Davros, Dalek Creator deck needs

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

• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• damage and drain every turn (its effect is sized by the life the opponents lost this turn)

The Davros, Dalek Creator deck plan

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

• 17× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
• 15× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 7× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 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

Best cards for Davros, Dalek Creator

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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