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Melira, the Living Cure

Melira, the Living Cure

Legendary Creature — Human Scout · {G}{W} · Green/White commander

If you would get one or more poison counters, instead you get one poison counter and you can't get additional poison counters this turn. Exile Melira: Choose another target creature or artifact. When it's put into a graveyard this turn, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
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What Melira, the Living Cure actually does

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What a Melira, the Living Cure deck wants

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Best cards for Melira, the Living Cure

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Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. High Market0 mana
  2. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  3. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
  4. Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise6 mana
  5. Ulamog's Dreadsire10 mana
  6. Vivien on the Hunt6 mana
  7. Orochi Eggwatcher // Shidako, Broodmistress3 mana
  8. Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise6 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Harsh Mercy3 mana
  8. Retribution of the Meek3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  4. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  5. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  6. Smothering Tithe4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Pip-Boy 30001 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  5. Sterling Grove2 mana
  6. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  7. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  8. Cryptothrall4 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  7. Crop Rotation1 mana
  8. Delighted Halfling1 mana

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