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Narset, Enlightened Exile

Legendary Creature — Human Monk · {1}{U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

Creatures you control have prowess. Whenever Narset attacks, exile target noncreature, nonland card with mana value less than Narset's power from a graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

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What Narset, Enlightened Exile 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 · attackWhenever Narset attacks, exile target noncreature, nonland card with mana value less than Narset's power from a graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
• Static ability · keyword_grantCreatures you control have prowess.

What a Narset, Enlightened Exile deck needs

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

• instants and sorceries in graveyards (its attack casts a copy free)
• power boosts for the commander (the copy's mana value must be below its power)
• prowess creatures

The Narset, Enlightened Exile deck plan

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

• 12× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 20× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Narset, Enlightened Exile

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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