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Klaw, Master of Sound

Legendary Creature — Elemental Rogue Villain · {2}{B} · Black commander

Deathtouch Whenever you play a card from exile, Klaw gains indestructible until end of turn. Whenever Klaw deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of that player's library, then exile it face down. You may play it for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.

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What Klaw, Master of Sound 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 · exileWhenever you play a card from exile, Klaw gains indestructible until end of turn.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Klaw deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of that player's library, then exile it face down. You may play it for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent t
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch

What a Klaw, Master of Sound deck needs

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

• cards that exile from your own library and play from exile (its payoff fires on every card played from exile)
• evasion and protection for the commander (the trigger needs its combat damage to connect)

The Klaw, Master of Sound deck plan

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

• 24× Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander
• 12× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a whole board at once
• 8× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Klaw, Master of Sound

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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