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Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard · {4}{B} · Black commander

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, surveil 1. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent may sacrifice a nontoken creature of their choice. Each opponent who doesn't loses 2 life for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
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What Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian actually does

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What a Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian deck wants

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Best cards for Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

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.

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

  1. Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
  2. Dawnhand Dissident1 mana
  3. Faerie Dreamthief1 mana
  4. Snarling Gorehound1 mana
  5. Barrier of Bones1 mana
  6. Desmond Miles2 mana
  7. Dogged Detective2 mana
  8. Purple Pentapus1 mana

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Dark Ritual1 mana
  2. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire1 mana
  3. Reanimate1 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Village Rites1 mana
  6. Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid0 mana
  7. Profane Tutor0 mana
  8. Corrupted Conviction1 mana

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Dark Ritual1 mana
  2. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire1 mana
  3. Reanimate1 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Village Rites1 mana
  6. Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid0 mana
  7. Profane Tutor0 mana
  8. Corrupted Conviction1 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. Mindcrank2 mana
  5. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  6. Codex Shredder1 mana
  7. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  8. Tomb Fortress0 mana

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

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  8. Diabolic Intent2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Kederekt Parasite1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

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