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Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

Legendary Creature — Siren Pirate · {2}{U} · Blue commander

Flying Whenever one or more Pirates you control deal damage to your opponents, you create a Treasure token for each opponent dealt damage. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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What Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator 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 · deals_damageWhenever one or more Pirates you control deal damage to your opponents, you create a Treasure token for each opponent dealt damage.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · partnerpartner

What a Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator deck needs

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

• artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures, Clues or Food on repeat)
• pirate creatures (its text counts them)

The Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator deck plan

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

• 33× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 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 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

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.

Combos with Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Glint-Horn Buccaneer22,623 decks
• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Reckless Fireweaver + Trickery Charm5,570 decks
• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Maskwood Nexus + Reckless Fireweaver4,179 decks
• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Reckless Fireweaver + Leyline Of Transformation4,021 decks
• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Ingenious Artillerist + Trickery Charm3,091 decks
• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Trickery Charm + Weftstalker Ardent3,023 decks

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