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Maha, Its Feathers Night
Legendary Creature — Elemental Bird · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander
Flying, trample
Ward—Discard a card.
Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.
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What Maha, Its Feathers Night actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Static ability · hoserCreatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · trampletrample
- Keyword · wardward
- AbilityWard—Discard a card.
What a Maha, Its Feathers Night deck needs
Plays as pinger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- pingers and 1-damage sweepers (every opposing creature has 1 toughness)
- a trampling flier to finish (ward costs them a discard)
The Maha, Its Feathers Night deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 4× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 12× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
Best cards for Maha, Its Feathers Night
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 tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
- Opposition Agent3 mana
- Cursed Totem2 mana
- Defense Grid2 mana
- Winter Moon2 mana
- Crawlspace3 mana
- Pithing Needle1 mana
- Petrified Hamlet0 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Lord Skitter's Butcher3 mana
- Skorpekh Lord3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 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
- Brotherhood Regalia2 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
- Black Mage's Rod2 mana
- Creeping Bloodsucker2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
- Osseous Sticktwister2 mana
- Eye of Jace1 mana
- Serrated Scorpion1 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Combos with Maha, Its Feathers Night
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Maha, Its Feathers Night is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Maha, Its Feathers Night + Toxrill, The Corrosive10,249 decks
- Maha, Its Feathers Night + Pestilence5,593 decks
- Maha, Its Feathers Night + Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite4,136 decks
- Maha, Its Feathers Night + M.o.d.o.k.1,730 decks
- Maha, Its Feathers Night + Goblin Sharpshooter1,604 decks
- Maha, Its Feathers Night + Pestilence Demon1,221 decks