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Karai, Future of the Foot

Legendary Creature — Human Ninja · {1}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Sneak {2}{W}{B} (You may cast this spell for {2}{W}{B} if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step. She enters tapped and attacking.) Whenever Karai deals combat damage to a player, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If her sneak cost was paid this turn, instead return that card to the battlefield.

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What Karai, Future of the Foot 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 · deals_damageWhenever Karai deals combat damage to a player, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If her sneak cost was paid this turn, instead return that card to the battlefield.
• Keyword · sneaksneak

What a Karai, Future of the Foot deck needs

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

• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• cheap evasive creatures that connect unblocked (sneak's cost is an unblocked attacker)
• evasion and protection for the commander (the trigger needs its combat damage to connect)

The Karai, Future of the Foot deck plan

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

• 17× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 12× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 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
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Karai, Future of the Foot

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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