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Malik, Grim Manipulator

Malik, Grim Manipulator

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · {2}{R}{W}{B} · Black/Red/White commander

When Malik, Grim Manipulator enters, you and target opponent each secretly choose a creature that player controls. Then those choices are revealed, and that player sacrifices those creatures. Whenever an opponent sacrifices a creature, you create a Treasure token.
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What Malik, Grim Manipulator actually does

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What a Malik, Grim Manipulator deck wants

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Best cards for Malik, Grim Manipulator

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Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  3. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  4. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  5. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  6. Felidar Guardian4 mana
  7. Restoration Angel4 mana
  8. Teleportation Circle4 mana

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

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Greedy Freebooter1 mana
  3. Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
  4. Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff2 mana
  5. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  6. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  7. Magda, Brazen Outlaw2 mana
  8. Magda, the Hoardmaster2 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Temple of Silence0 mana
  4. Temple of Triumph0 mana
  5. Bloodfell Caves0 mana
  6. Boros Garrison0 mana
  7. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  8. Elegant Parlor0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  5. Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
  6. Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
  7. Mite Overseer4 mana
  8. Phantom General4 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  2. Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon3 mana
  3. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  4. Pashalik Mons3 mana
  5. Caesar, Legion's Emperor4 mana
  6. Elenda, the Dusk Rose4 mana
  7. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  8. Hero of Bladehold4 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. Defile1 mana
  5. Tragic Slip1 mana
  6. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Terminate2 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

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