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Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost

Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost

Legendary Creature — Zombie Employee · {1}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

When Dee Kay enters, open an Attraction. Whenever you roll a 2, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Whenever you roll a 4, you may tap or untap target artifact or creature. Whenever you roll a 6, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
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What Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost actually does

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What a Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost deck wants

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Best cards for Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost

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.

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

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  3. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  4. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  5. Y'shtola Rhul6 mana
  6. Escape Protocol2 mana
  7. Gandalf, Shadow's Foe7 mana
  8. Essence Flux1 mana

Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably

  1. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  2. Leechridden Swamp0 mana
  3. Marionette Apprentice2 mana
  4. The Meathook Massacre2 mana
  5. Mirkwood Bats4 mana
  6. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
  7. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
  8. Bontu's Monument3 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. "Lifetime" Pass Holder1 mana
  2. Deadbeat Attendant2 mana
  3. Quick Fixer3 mana
  4. Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost3 mana
  5. Seasoned Buttoneer3 mana
  6. Discourtesy Clerk4 mana
  7. Monitor Monitor4 mana
  8. Draconian Gate-Bot5 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. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  4. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  5. Dimir Aqueduct0 mana
  6. Dismal Backwater0 mana
  7. Lotus Field0 mana
  8. Mortuary Mire0 mana

Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Dark Ritual1 mana
  3. Mana Vault1 mana
  4. Sol Ring1 mana
  5. Sol Talisman0 mana
  6. Culling the Weak1 mana
  7. Dimir Signet2 mana
  8. Mind Stone2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Brain Freeze2 mana
  5. Mindcrank2 mana
  6. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  7. Codex Shredder1 mana
  8. Hedron Crab1 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Suspend1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Displacement Wave2 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  8. Forced March3 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

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