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Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

Legendary Creature — Dragon · {3}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

Flying, haste Whenever one or more Dragons you control attack an opponent, goad target creature that player controls. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, if that creature had to attack this combat, you put a +1/+1 counter on Firkraag and you draw a card.
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What Firkraag, Cunning Instigator actually does

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What a Firkraag, Cunning Instigator deck needs

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

The Firkraag, Cunning Instigator deck plan

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

Best cards for Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

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 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield

  1. Gingerbrute1 mana
  2. Mist-Cloaked Herald1 mana
  3. Slither Blade1 mana
  4. Triton Shorestalker1 mana
  5. Gudul Lurker1 mana
  6. K-9, Mark I1 mana
  7. Fugitive Droid1 mana
  8. Tin Street Dodger1 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Shivan Devastator1 mana
  2. Slumbering Dragon1 mana
  3. Deceptive Frostkite2 mana
  4. Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw2 mana
  5. Reckless Barbarian2 mana
  6. Sprite Dragon2 mana
  7. Atsushi, the Blazing Sky4 mana
  8. Leyline Tyrant4 mana

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

  1. Thrummingbird2 mana
  2. Vexing Radgull2 mana
  3. Cacophony Scamp1 mana
  4. Kid Loki1 mana
  5. Dreamtide Whale3 mana
  6. Flux Channeler3 mana
  7. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  8. Walking Ballista0 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Crush1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Jilt2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Personal Tutor1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Desynchronization4 mana
  5. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  6. Whelming Wave4 mana
  7. Consuming Tide4 mana
  8. Selective Obliteration5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Herald's Horn3 mana
  7. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  8. Rhystic Study3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Commander's Plate1 mana
  7. Dragonologist3 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

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