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Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
Legendary Creature — Orc Soldier · {B}{R} · Black/Red commander
What Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · counter_doublerIf one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an Army, Goblin, or Orc you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
- Keyword · menacemenace
What a Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain deck needs
Plays as counters engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- counter producers and proliferate (every counter placed is multiplied)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- goblin/orc creatures (its text counts them)
The Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 8× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 26× 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
- 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 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
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.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain2 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
- Gallia, the Merrymaker2 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician4 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
- Throne of Geth2 mana
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Goblin Welder1 mana
- Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
- Skirk Prospector1 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Dragonlord's Servant2 mana
- Goblin Engineer2 mana
- Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 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
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 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
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
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