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Master Pakku

Master Pakku

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor Ally · {1}{U} · Blue commander

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever Master Pakku becomes tapped, target player mills X cards, where X is the number of Lesson cards in your graveyard. (They put the top X cards of their library into their graveyard.)
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What Master Pakku actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Master Pakku deck needs

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

The Master Pakku deck plan

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

Best cards for Master Pakku

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.

Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition

  1. Altar of the Brood1 mana
  2. Ruin Crab1 mana
  3. Folio of Fancies2 mana
  4. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  5. Psychic Corrosion3 mana
  6. The Water Crystal4 mana
  7. Manic Scribe2 mana
  8. Vantress Gargoyle2 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Freed from the Real3 mana
  2. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Unstoppable Plan3 mana
  6. Genji Glove5 mana
  7. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  8. Sword of the Paruns4 mana

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  3. Brainstorm1 mana
  4. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  5. Opt1 mana
  6. Ponder1 mana
  7. Pongify1 mana
  8. Preordain1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  2. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  3. Millikin2 mana
  4. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  5. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  6. Fraying Sanity3 mana
  7. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  8. Sequestered Stash0 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  6. Titan's Presence3 mana
  7. Icy Prison2 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Transmute Artifact2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  8. Muddle the Mixture2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Desynchronization4 mana
  2. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  3. Whelming Wave4 mana
  4. Consuming Tide4 mana
  5. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  6. Evacuation5 mana
  7. Perplexing Test5 mana
  8. Cyclonic Rift2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Rhystic Study3 mana
  6. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Combat Research1 mana

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