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Heiko Yamazaki, the General

Heiko Yamazaki, the General

Legendary Creature — Human Samurai · {3}{R} · Red commander

Trample Whenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, you may cast target artifact card from your graveyard this turn.
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What Heiko Yamazaki, the General actually does

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What a Heiko Yamazaki, the General deck needs

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

The Heiko Yamazaki, the General deck plan

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

Best cards for Heiko Yamazaki, the General

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

  1. Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh0 mana
  2. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  3. Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
  4. Goblin Motivator1 mana
  5. Norin the Wary1 mana
  6. Reinforced Ronin1 mana
  7. Spear Spewer1 mana
  8. Stadium Headliner1 mana

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  2. Millikin2 mana
  3. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  4. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  5. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  6. Sequestered Stash0 mana
  7. Excavated Wall1 mana
  8. Wand of Vertebrae1 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 Engineer2 mana
  2. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  3. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  4. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  5. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  6. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  7. Gamble1 mana
  8. Hoarding Dragon5 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. Herald's Horn3 mana
  4. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 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

Combos with Heiko Yamazaki, the General

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Heiko Yamazaki, the General is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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