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Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric // Legendary Creature — Demon · {2}{B} · Black commander

Whenever Jerren enters or another nontoken Human you control dies, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 white Human creature token. {2}: Target Human you control gains lifelink until end of turn. At the beginning of your end step, if you have exactly 13 life, you may pay {4}{B}{B}. If you do, transform Jerren. Flying, trample, lifelink Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card.

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What Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter 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 · deathWhenever Jerren enters or another nontoken Human you control dies, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
• Activated ability{2}: Target Human you control gains lifelink until end of turn.
• Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, if you have exactly 13 life, you may pay {4}{B}{B}. If you do, transform Jerren.
• Activated abilitySacrifice another creature: Draw a card.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · trampletrample
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink

What a Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter deck needs

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

• expendable creatures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander is a sacrifice outlet)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• human creatures (its text counts them)

The Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter deck plan

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

• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter

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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