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M.O.D.O.K.
Legendary Artifact Creature — Villain · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander
Flying, lifelink
Mental Organism — Pay 3 life: M.O.D.O.K. connives. Activate only during your turn. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Designed Only for Killing — Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.
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What M.O.D.O.K. actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated abilityPay 3 life: M.O.D.O.K. connives. Activate only during your turn.
- Static ability · hoserDesigned Only for Killing — Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.
- Keyword · mental organismmental organism
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · lifelinklifelink
- Keyword · conniveconnive
What a M.O.D.O.K. deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 15× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 19× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 7× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for M.O.D.O.K.
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 tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Arcane Lighthouse0 mana
- Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
- Conqueror's Flail2 mana
- Winter Moon2 mana
- Blightbeetle2 mana
- Soulless Jailer2 mana
- Weathered Runestone2 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Red Room Recruit2 mana
- Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel2 mana
- Body Launderer4 mana
- Baron Helmut Zemo3 mana
- Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord3 mana
- Iron Monger, Sadistic Tycoon3 mana
- Mechanical Mobster3 mana
- Raffine's Silencer3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 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
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
Answer a whole board at once
- Do or Die2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Innocent Blood1 mana
- Coils of the Medusa2 mana
- Forced March3 mana
- Nature's Ruin3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Kederekt Parasite1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 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
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana