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Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier · {2}{R} · Red commander

When Grishnákh enters, amass Orcs 2. When you do, until end of turn, gain control of target nonlegendary creature an opponent controls with power less than or equal to the amassed Army's power. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
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What Grishnákh, Brash Instigator actually does

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What a Grishnákh, Brash Instigator deck needs

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

The Grishnákh, Brash Instigator deck plan

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

Best cards for Grishnákh, Brash 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.

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

  1. Norin the Wary1 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Voyager Staff1 mana
  4. Golden Argosy4 mana
  5. Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
  6. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  2. Dualcaster Mage3 mana
  3. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  4. Dire Fleet Daredevil2 mana
  5. Fear of Missing Out2 mana
  6. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  7. Goblin Matron3 mana
  8. Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak5 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Goblin Recruiter2 mana
  2. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  3. Goblin Matron3 mana
  4. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  5. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  6. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  7. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  8. Gamble1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  8. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 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

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Goblin Bombardment2 mana
  3. Spawning Pit2 mana
  4. Ashnod's Altar3 mana
  5. Betrothed of Fire2 mana
  6. Phyrexian Altar3 mana
  7. Bogardan Dragonheart3 mana
  8. High Market0 mana

Combos with Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Grishnákh, Brash Instigator is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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