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Mass of Mysteries

Legendary Creature — Elemental · {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander

First strike, vigilance, trample At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target Elemental you control gains myriad until end of turn. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

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What Mass of Mysteries 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 · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, another target Elemental you control gains myriad until end of turn.
• Keyword · first strikefirst strike
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance
• Keyword · trampletrample

What a Mass of Mysteries deck needs

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

• Elementals with attack or enter value (one gains myriad each combat)

The Mass of Mysteries deck plan

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

• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 28× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Mass of Mysteries

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 Mass of Mysteries

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Mass of Mysteries is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Mass of Mysteries + Prismabasher + Twinflame Travelers1,166 decks

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