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Massacre Girl, Known Killer
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin · {2}{B}{B} · Black commander
Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.
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What Massacre Girl, Known Killer 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 · deathWhenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.
- Static ability · keyword_grantCreatures you control have wither.
- Keyword · menacemenace
What a Massacre Girl, Known Killer deck needs
Plays as team keywords. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- damage sources aimed at opposing creatures — pingers, fight and first-strike bodies (wither turns every point into -1/-1 counters, and she draws when they die at toughness below 1)
- menace and evasion so her wither attackers connect with blockers on their terms
- -1/-1 counter payoffs and sweepers that shrink rather than destroy
The Massacre Girl, Known Killer deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 28× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 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
- 12× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- 8× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
Best cards for Massacre Girl, Known Killer
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 permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
- Nightscape Familiar2 mana
- Hazoret's Monument3 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
- Twinning Staff3 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
A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- Valley Rotcaller2 mana
- Bloodsoaked Champion1 mana
- Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel3 mana
- Signal Pest1 mana
- Weathered Sentinels3 mana
- Rev, Tithe Extractor4 mana
- Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana