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Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior · {5}{B} · Black commander
Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadier.
When Nadier leaves the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens equal to its power.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
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What Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel 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 · otherWhenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadier.
- Triggered ability · otherWhen Nadier leaves the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens equal to its power.
- Keyword · partnerpartner
What a Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel deck needs
Plays as voltron. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
The Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 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
Best cards for Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
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 +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
- Opal Palace0 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
Combos with Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar140 decks
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel + Eldrazi Displacer + Ashnod's Altar21 decks
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel + Deadeye Navigator + Phyrexian Altar7 decks
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel + Emiel The Blessed + Ashnod's Altar4 decks
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel + Emiel The Blessed + Phyrexian Altar3 decks
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar1 decks