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Nashi, Searcher in the Dark

Legendary Creature — Rat Ninja Wizard · {U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Menace Whenever Nashi deals combat damage to a player, you mill that many cards. You may put any number of legendary and/or enchantment cards from among them into your hand. If you put no cards into your hand this way, put a +1/+1 counter on Nashi.

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What Nashi, Searcher in the Dark 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 · deals_damageWhenever Nashi deals combat damage to a player, you mill that many cards. You may put any number of legendary and/or enchantment cards from among them into your hand. If you put no cards into your han
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Nashi, Searcher in the Dark deck needs

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

• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• evasion and protection for the commander (the trigger needs its combat damage to connect)

The Nashi, Searcher in the Dark deck plan

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

• 12× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 2× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Nashi, Searcher in the Dark

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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