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Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · {3}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
Permanents you control have "Ward—Sacrifice a permanent."
Each artifact card in your graveyard has unearth {1}{B}{R}. ({1}{B}{R}: Return the card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
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What Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- AbilityPermanents you control have "Ward—Sacrifice a permanent."
- AbilityEach artifact card in your graveyard has unearth {1}{B}{R}.
What a Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa deck needs
Plays as artifact recursion. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifacts with enter or attack value (each can unearth from the graveyard)
- self-mill
The Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 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
- 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
Best cards for Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
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.
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
- Codex Shredder1 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- 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
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa + Void Maw + Myr Battlesphere + Phyrexian Altar8 decks
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa + Void Maw + Diamond Lion3 decks
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa + Void Maw + Composite Golem