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Marvin, Murderous Mimic
Legendary Artifact Creature — Toy · {2} · Colorless commander
What Marvin, Murderous Mimic 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 · ability_shareMarvin has all activated abilities of creatures you control that don't have the same name as this creature.
What a Marvin, Murderous Mimic deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
The Marvin, Murderous Mimic deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× A creature with an activated ability worth copying or borrowing
- 9× 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
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Marvin, Murderous Mimic
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 creature with an activated ability worth copying or borrowing
- Ornithopter of Paradise2 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Steel Overseer2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Myr Convert2 mana
- Plague Myr2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
- Warping Wail2 mana
- Null Elemental Blast1 mana
- Zuko's Exile5 mana
- Clay Golem4 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
- Self-Assembler5 mana
- Pyre of Heroes2 mana
- Tamiyo's Journal5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Karn's Sylex3 mana
- Calamity of the Titans6 mana
- Apocalypse Chime2 mana
- The Moment2 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
- Key to the City2 mana
- Mask of Memory2 mana
- Tome of Legends2 mana
- Buster Sword3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 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
Combos with Marvin, Murderous Mimic
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Marvin, Murderous Mimic is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Ioreth Of The Healing House24,095 decks
- Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Pili-Pala + Palladium Myr3,845 decks
- Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Farmstead Gleaner + Palladium Myr2,207 decks
- Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Pili-Pala + Metalworker1,332 decks
- Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Cryptic Trilobite + Farmstead Gleaner1,230 decks
- Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Pili-Pala + Bloom Tender966 decks
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