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Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
Legendary Creature — Zombie Cleric · {3}{B}{B}{B} · Black commander
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
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What Mikaeus, the Unhallowed actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
- Static ability · anthemOther non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying.
- Keyword · intimidateintimidate
What a Mikaeus, the Unhallowed deck needs
Plays as undying aristocrats (non-Humans). What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- non-Human creatures with enter or death triggers (they come back with undying)
- sacrifice outlets (Altar loops)
- ways to remove +1/+1 counters to reset undying
The Mikaeus, the Unhallowed deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 16× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
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.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Lord Skitter's Butcher3 mana
- Skorpekh Lord3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
- Grave Titan6 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Spawnbed Protector7 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 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
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 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
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
- Nightscape Familiar2 mana
- Cemetery Reaper3 mana
- Hazoret's Monument3 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
Combos with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Mikaeus, the Unhallowed is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Ashnod's Altar46,531 decks
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Phyrexian Altar41,697 decks
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Carrion Feeder40,210 decks
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Viscera Seer32,772 decks
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Altar Of Dementia20,268 decks
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist16,112 decks