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Narfi, Betrayer King

Narfi, Betrayer King

Legendary Snow Creature — Zombie Wizard · {3}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Other snow and Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {S}{S}{S}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
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What Narfi, Betrayer King actually does

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What a Narfi, Betrayer King deck needs

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

The Narfi, Betrayer King deck plan

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

Best cards for Narfi, Betrayer King

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. Carrion Feeder1 mana
  2. Gravecrawler1 mana
  3. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  4. Champion of the Perished1 mana
  5. Cryptbreaker1 mana
  6. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  7. Nightscape Familiar2 mana
  8. Undead Augur2 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Coldsteel Heart2 mana
  2. Arcum's Astrolabe1 mana
  3. Ascendant Spirit1 mana
  4. Frost Augur1 mana
  5. Replicating Ring3 mana
  6. Icehide Golem1 mana
  7. Rimebound Dead1 mana
  8. Avalanche Caller2 mana

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

  1. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  2. Replicating Ring3 mana
  3. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  4. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  5. Field of the Dead0 mana
  6. Fountainport0 mana
  7. Grave Titan6 mana
  8. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  4. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  5. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  6. Port of Karfell0 mana
  7. Tomb Fortress0 mana
  8. Millikin2 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Fatal Push1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Tainted Pact2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. Desynchronization4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Black Market Connections3 mana
  6. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  7. Herald's Horn3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

Combos with Narfi, Betrayer King

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Narfi, Betrayer King is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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