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Nahiri, the Lithomancer

Legendary Planeswalker — Nahiri · {3}{W}{W} · White commander

+2: Create a 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature token. You may attach an Equipment you control to it. −2: You may put an Equipment card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield. −10: Create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Stoneforged Blade. It has indestructible, "Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has double strike," and equip {0}. Nahiri, the Lithomancer can be your commander.

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What Nahiri, the Lithomancer actually does

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

• Activated ability+2: Create a 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature token. You may attach an Equipment you control to it.
• Activated ability−2: You may put an Equipment card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.
• Activated ability−10: Create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Stoneforged Blade. It has indestructible, "Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has double strike," and equip {0}.

What a Nahiri, the Lithomancer deck needs

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

• ways to keep the commander planeswalker alive (blockers, fogs, pillowfort), loyalty growth (proliferate, loyalty boosters) and planeswalker synergies — it must survive a turn cycle to work
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)

The Nahiri, the Lithomancer deck plan

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

• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 6× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
• 6× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Nahiri, the Lithomancer

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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