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Hermes, Overseer of Elpis

Hermes, Overseer of Elpis

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard · {3}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying and vigilance. Whenever you attack with one or more Birds, scry 2.
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What Hermes, Overseer of Elpis 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 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis deck needs

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

The Hermes, Overseer of Elpis deck plan

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

Best cards for Hermes, Overseer of Elpis

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 card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Mockingbird1 mana
  2. Ledger Shredder2 mana
  3. Thrummingbird2 mana
  4. Artificer's Assistant1 mana
  5. Harrier Strix1 mana
  6. Silver Raven1 mana
  7. Wan Shi Tong, Librarian2 mana
  8. Cloudfin Raptor1 mana

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

  1. Mockingbird1 mana
  2. Ledger Shredder2 mana
  3. Thrummingbird2 mana
  4. Wan Shi Tong, Librarian2 mana
  5. Artificer's Assistant1 mana
  6. Harrier Strix1 mana
  7. Silver Raven1 mana
  8. Cloudfin Raptor1 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  2. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  3. Adaptive Automaton3 mana
  4. Chief of the Foundry3 mana
  5. Icon of Ancestry3 mana
  6. Master of Etherium3 mana
  7. Banner of Kinship5 mana
  8. Vanquisher's Banner5 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  6. Titan's Presence3 mana
  7. Icy Prison2 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Personal Tutor1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Desynchronization4 mana
  2. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  3. Whelming Wave4 mana
  4. Consuming Tide4 mana
  5. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  6. Evacuation5 mana
  7. Perplexing Test5 mana
  8. Raise the Palisade5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Herald's Horn3 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lost in the Maze2 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

Combos with Hermes, Overseer of Elpis

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Hermes, Overseer of Elpis is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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