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Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot · {W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Mendicant Core's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control. Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) Max speed — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)
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What Mendicant Core, Guidelight 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 Mendicant Core, Guidelight deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Mendicant Core, Guidelight

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 whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  3. Azorius Chancery0 mana
  4. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  5. Lotus Field0 mana
  6. Meticulous Archive0 mana
  7. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  8. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Nesting Bot1 mana
  2. Mendicant Core, Guidelight2 mana
  3. Vnwxt, Verbose Host2 mana
  4. Leonin Surveyor2 mana
  5. Slick Imitator2 mana
  6. Walking Sarcophagus2 mana
  7. Glitch Ghost Surveyor3 mana
  8. Pride of the Road4 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Darksteel Citadel0 mana
  3. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  4. Lotus Petal0 mana
  5. Mox Amber0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mox Opal0 mana
  8. Ancient Den0 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Suspend1 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. Displacement Wave2 mana
  8. Harsh Mercy3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Open the Armory2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  8. Mystical Tutor1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

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