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Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia

Legendary Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Artificer · Black/Red commander

Whenever Mishra enters or attacks, choose three — • Target opponent discards two cards. • Mishra deals 3 damage to any target. • Destroy target artifact or planeswalker. • Creatures you control gain menace and trample until end of turn. • Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Create two tapped Powerstone tokens.

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What Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia 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 · attackWhenever Mishra enters or attacks, choose three —
• Static ability · keyword_grant• Creatures you control gain menace and trample until end of turn.

What a Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• cards that make opponents discard (its payoff is their discards)
• creatures that profit from trample/menace (it grants the team them)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia deck plan

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

• 10× Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs

Best cards for Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia

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.

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