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Magda, the Hoardmaster
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Berserker · {1}{R} · Red commander
Whenever you commit a crime, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Sacrifice three Treasures: Create a 4/4 red Scorpion Dragon creature token with flying and haste. Activate only as a sorcery.
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What Magda, the Hoardmaster 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 · otherWhenever you commit a crime, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
- Activated abilitySacrifice three Treasures: Create a 4/4 red Scorpion Dragon creature token with flying and haste. Activate only as a sorcery.
What a Magda, the Hoardmaster deck needs
Plays as crime engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- targeted spells and abilities aimed at opponents and their permanents (each crime makes a Treasure)
- Treasure makers and Treasure payoffs (three Treasures make a 4/4 flying haste Dragon)
The Magda, the Hoardmaster deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 4× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 10× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 8× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
Best cards for Magda, the Hoardmaster
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.
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Hanweir Garrison3 mana
- Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw2 mana
- Dwarven Recruiter3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- Impact Tremors2 mana
- Shivan Gorge0 mana
- Coruscation Mage2 mana
- Descent into Avernus3 mana
- Ramunap Ruins0 mana
- Agate Instigator2 mana
- Firebrand Archer2 mana
- Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar2 mana
Combos with Magda, the Hoardmaster
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Magda, the Hoardmaster is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Magda, the Hoardmaster + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Parallel Lives167 decks
- Magda, the Hoardmaster + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Doubling Season147 decks
- Magda, the Hoardmaster + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Anointed Procession72 decks
- Magda, the Hoardmaster + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Mondrak, Glory Dominus66 decks
- Magda, the Hoardmaster + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Primal Vigor56 decks
- Magda, the Hoardmaster + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Elspeth, Storm Slayer22 decks