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Nalia de'Arnise

Nalia de'Arnise

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · {1}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard spells from the top of your library. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you have a full party, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain deathtouch until end of turn.
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What Nalia de'Arnise actually does

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What a Nalia de'Arnise deck needs

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

The Nalia de'Arnise deck plan

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

Best cards for Nalia de'Arnise

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

  1. Viscera Seer1 mana
  2. Mother of Runes1 mana
  3. Soul Warden1 mana
  4. Soul's Attendant1 mana
  5. Grand Abolisher2 mana
  6. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  7. Disciple of the Vault1 mana
  8. Forsaken Miner1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
  2. Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
  3. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  4. Grateful Apparition2 mana
  5. Metastatic Evangel2 mana
  6. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  7. Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
  8. Generous Pup2 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  6. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Bitter Triumph2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Day of Judgment4 mana
  7. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  8. Kaya's Wrath4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Herald's Horn3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Archivist of Oghma2 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. General's Enforcer2 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

Combos with Nalia de'Arnise

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Nalia de'Arnise is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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