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Hired Muscle // Scarmaker

Hired Muscle // Scarmaker

Creature — Human Warrior // Legendary Creature — Spirit · {1}{B}{B} · Black commander

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on this creature. At the beginning of the end step, if there are two or more ki counters on this creature, you may flip it. Remove a ki counter from Scarmaker: Target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
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What Hired Muscle // Scarmaker actually does

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What a Hired Muscle // Scarmaker deck wants

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Best cards for Hired Muscle // Scarmaker

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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. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  2. Ugin's Conjurant0 mana
  3. Yargle, Glutton of Urborg // Yargle, Glutton of Urborg0 mana
  4. Bloodghast2 mana
  5. Nether Traitor2 mana
  6. Hateful Eidolon1 mana
  7. Tormented Soul1 mana
  8. Crypt Ghast4 mana

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

  1. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  2. Ugin's Conjurant0 mana
  3. Yargle, Glutton of Urborg // Yargle, Glutton of Urborg0 mana
  4. Hateful Eidolon1 mana
  5. Tormented Soul1 mana
  6. Bloodghast2 mana
  7. Nether Traitor2 mana
  8. Bile Urchin1 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

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 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. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Kederekt Parasite1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 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. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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