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Hidetsugu and Kairi

Legendary Creature — Ogre Demon Dragon · {2}{U}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Flying When Hidetsugu and Kairi enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. When Hidetsugu and Kairi dies, exile the top card of your library. Target opponent loses life equal to its mana value. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

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What Hidetsugu and Kairi 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 Hidetsugu and Kairi enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
• Triggered ability · deathWhen Hidetsugu and Kairi dies, exile the top card of your library. Target opponent loses life equal to its mana value. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its m
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Hidetsugu and Kairi deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

• 32× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

Best cards for Hidetsugu and Kairi

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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