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Minthara, Merciless Soul
Legendary Creature — Elf Cleric · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander
Minthara has ward {X}, where X is the number of experience counters you have.
At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, you get an experience counter.
Creatures you control get +1/+0 for each experience counter you have.
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What Minthara, Merciless Soul 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, you get an experience counter.
- Static ability · anthemCreatures you control get +1/+0 for each experience counter you have.
- AbilityMinthara has ward {X}, where X is the number of experience counters you have.
What a Minthara, Merciless Soul deck needs
Plays as go wide. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- permanents leaving the battlefield every turn — sacrifice, blink, tokens (each such turn gives an experience counter)
- a wide board for the team pump
The Minthara, Merciless Soul deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 9× 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
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
Best cards for Minthara, Merciless Soul
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.
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Cosmogrand Zenith3 mana
- Kaya, Geist Hunter3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 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
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Bartolomé del Presidio2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Cartel Aristocrat2 mana
Combos with Minthara, Merciless Soul
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Minthara, Merciless Soul is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Minthara, Merciless Soul + Ruthless Technomancer + Restoration Angel175 decks
- Minthara, Merciless Soul + Ruthless Technomancer + Felidar Guardian112 decks
- Minthara, Merciless Soul + Ruthless Technomancer + Icewind Stalwart29 decks
- Minthara, Merciless Soul + Ruthless Technomancer + Wispweaver Angel4 decks