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Nagao, Bound by Honor

Nagao, Bound by Honor

Legendary Creature — Human Samurai · {3}{W} · White commander

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever Nagao attacks, Samurai creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
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What Nagao, Bound by Honor actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Nagao, Bound by Honor deck needs

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

The Nagao, Bound by Honor deck plan

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

Best cards for Nagao, Bound by Honor

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 haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Selfless Samurai2 mana
  2. Bushi Tenderfoot // Kenzo the Hardhearted1 mana
  3. Devoted Retainer1 mana
  4. Summon: Yojimbo4 mana
  5. Eiganjo Exemplar2 mana
  6. Araba Mothrider2 mana
  7. Colleen Wing, Street Samurai2 mana
  8. Hand of Honor2 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  2. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  3. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  4. On Wings of Gold4 mana
  5. Shadowspear1 mana
  6. Bilbo's Ring3 mana
  7. Cliffhaven Kitesail1 mana
  8. Gryff's Boon1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  3. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  4. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  5. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  6. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  7. Cosmogrand Zenith3 mana
  8. Twilight Drover3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Generous Gift3 mana
  5. Erode1 mana
  6. Unwanted Remake1 mana
  7. Angelic Ascension2 mana
  8. You Cannot Pass!1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Templar Knight2 mana
  4. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  5. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  6. Loyal Tutor1 mana
  7. Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
  8. Search for Glory3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Day of Judgment4 mana
  4. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  5. Split Up3 mana
  6. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  7. Depopulate4 mana
  8. No Witnesses4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Herald's Horn3 mana
  4. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  8. Enduring Innocence3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  6. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  7. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  8. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana

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