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Kain, Traitorous Dragoon

Kain, Traitorous Dragoon

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{B} · Black commander

Jump — During your turn, Kain has flying. Whenever Kain deals combat damage to a player, that player gains control of Kain. If they do, you draw that many cards, create that many tapped Treasure tokens, then lose that much life.
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What Kain, Traitorous Dragoon actually does

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What a Kain, Traitorous Dragoon deck wants

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Best cards for Kain, Traitorous Dragoon

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Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  3. Shadowspear1 mana
  4. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  5. Skorpekh Lord3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. Chronicle of Victory6 mana
  8. Super State7 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Greedy Freebooter1 mana
  2. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  3. Shambling Ghast1 mana
  4. Warren Soultrader3 mana
  5. Pitiless Plunderer4 mana
  6. Forsworn Paladin1 mana
  7. Mari, the Killing Quill3 mana
  8. Grim Hireling4 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  3. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  4. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  5. Eldritch Immunity1 mana
  6. Not Dead After All1 mana
  7. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
  8. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  2. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  3. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  4. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  5. Liliana, the Last Hope3 mana
  6. Nest of Scarabs3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Grave Titan6 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

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