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Mayael the Anima

Mayael the Anima

Legendary Creature — Elf Shaman · {R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander

{3}{R}{G}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card with power 5 or greater from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
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What Mayael the Anima 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 Mayael the Anima deck needs

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

The Mayael the Anima deck plan

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

Best cards for Mayael the Anima

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 haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  7. Fervor3 mana
  8. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana

A creature at or above the commander's power floor — its text only counts them (dossier vet 2026-09-26: Bugenhagen, Gwenna, Ruby)

  1. Impervious Greatwurm10 mana
  2. Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
  3. Ghalta, Primal Hunger12 mana
  4. Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
  5. Baloth Prime4 mana
  6. Worldspine Wurm11 mana
  7. Quakestrider Ceratops6 mana
  8. Ghalta and Mavren7 mana

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

  1. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  2. Aurelia, the Warleader6 mana
  3. Bear Umbra4 mana
  4. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  5. Thornbite Staff2 mana
  6. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  7. Genji Glove5 mana
  8. Copperhorn Scout1 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Eladamri's Call2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  6. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  7. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros Signet2 mana
  3. Gruul Signet2 mana
  4. Incubation Druid2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  8. Selesnya Signet2 mana

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