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Hama, the Bloodbender

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · {2}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B} · Black/Blue commander

When Hama enters, target opponent mills three cards. Exile up to one noncreature, nonland card from that player's graveyard. For as long as you control Hama, you may cast the exiled card during your turn by waterbending {X} rather than paying its mana cost, where X is its mana value. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.)

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What Hama, the Bloodbender 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 · etbWhen Hama enters, target opponent mills three cards. Exile up to one noncreature, nonland card from that player's graveyard. For as long as you control Hama, you may cast the exiled card during your t

What a Hama, the Bloodbender deck needs

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

• opponent-mill spells and permanents, and mill payoffs (their library is the win)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)

The Hama, the Bloodbender deck plan

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

• 20× Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
• 9× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 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 Hama, the Bloodbender

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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