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Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant

Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant

Legendary Creature — Beholder · {3}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Whenever you attack a player, tap target creature that player controls and goad it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever an opponent attacks another one of your opponents, you and the attacking player each draw a card and lose 1 life.
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What Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant deck needs

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

The Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant deck plan

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

Best cards for Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant

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.

Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
  3. Curse of Opulence1 mana
  4. Mindcrank2 mana
  5. The Meathook Massacre2 mana
  6. Kederekt Parasite1 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Scrawling Crawler3 mana

A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break

  1. Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
  2. Opposition Agent3 mana
  3. Cursed Totem2 mana
  4. Defense Grid2 mana
  5. Roiling Vortex2 mana
  6. Winter Moon2 mana
  7. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  8. Crawlspace3 mana

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

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  3. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  4. Hanweir Garrison3 mana
  5. Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana
  6. Field of the Dead0 mana
  7. Fountainport0 mana
  8. Grave Titan6 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Terminate2 mana
  6. Fatal Push1 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Black Sun's Twilight1 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. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 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. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

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