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Killian, Decisive Mentor

Killian, Decisive Mentor

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

Whenever an enchantment you control enters, tap up to one target creature and goad it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever one or more creatures that are enchanted by an Aura you control attack, draw a card.
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What Killian, Decisive Mentor actually does

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What a Killian, Decisive Mentor deck wants

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Best cards for Killian, Decisive Mentor

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.

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

  1. Serene Sleuth2 mana
  2. Killian, Decisive Mentor3 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Twinblade Geist // Twinblade Invocation2 mana
  2. Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr // Katilda's Rising Dawn3 mana
  3. Drogskol Infantry // Drogskol Armaments2 mana
  4. Vengeful Strangler // Strangling Grasp2 mana
  5. Curse of Leeches // Leeching Lurker3 mana
  6. Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment3 mana
  7. Distracting Geist // Clever Distraction3 mana
  8. Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace3 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  2. Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
  3. Kaya's Ghostform1 mana
  4. Land Tax1 mana
  5. Phyrexian Reclamation1 mana
  6. Reconnaissance1 mana
  7. Sigarda's Aid1 mana
  8. Animate Dead2 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  6. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  7. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  8. Fatal Push1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Amalia Benavides Aguirre2 mana
  4. Do or Die2 mana
  5. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  6. Pest Control2 mana
  7. Force of Despair3 mana
  8. Split Up3 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. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Archivist of Oghma2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Cryptothrall4 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  8. General's Enforcer2 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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