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Hammerhead, Maggia Boss

Hammerhead, Maggia Boss

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue Villain · {1}{B} · Black commander

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hammerhead.
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What Hammerhead, Maggia Boss actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Hammerhead, Maggia Boss deck needs

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

The Hammerhead, Maggia Boss deck plan

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

Best cards for Hammerhead, Maggia Boss

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.

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  2. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  3. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  4. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
  5. Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
  6. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana
  7. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  8. Enduring Tenacity4 mana

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

  1. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  2. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  3. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  4. Walking Ballista0 mana
  5. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  6. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  7. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
  8. Opal Palace0 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

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 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

Combos with Hammerhead, Maggia Boss

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Hammerhead, Maggia Boss is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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