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Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor
Legendary Creature — Zombie Mutant Advisor · {2}{B} · Black commander
Each other creature you control that's a Zombie or Mutant gets +X/+X, where X is the number of counters on Hancock.
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
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What Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Keyword · undyingundying
- AbilityEach other creature you control that's a Zombie or Mutant gets +X/+X, where X is the number of counters on Hancock.
What a Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor deck needs
Plays as zombie typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- Zombies and Mutants (they get +X/+X per counter on it)
- sacrifice outlets (undying returns it with a counter)
The Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 33× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
Best cards for Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor
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 permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
- Nightscape Familiar2 mana
- Cemetery Reaper3 mana
- Hazoret's Monument3 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Champion of the Perished1 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
Combos with Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Viscera Seer128 decks
- Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Ashnod's Altar123 decks
- Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Carrion Feeder101 decks
- Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Umbral Collar Zealot100 decks
- Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Bartolomé Del Presidio94 decks
- Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Phyrexian Altar88 decks