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Neerdiv, Devious Diver

Neerdiv, Devious Diver

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Rogue · {2}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever Neerdiv becomes tapped, target player mills cards equal to its power. Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard or activate an ability of a card in your graveyard, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Neerdiv.
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What Neerdiv, Devious Diver actually does

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

What a Neerdiv, Devious Diver deck needs

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

The Neerdiv, Devious Diver deck plan

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

Best cards for Neerdiv, Devious Diver

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 spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin

  1. Sol Talisman0 mana
  2. Snapcaster Mage2 mana
  3. Hidden Cataract0 mana
  4. Lotus Bloom0 mana
  5. Mox Tantalite0 mana
  6. Ancestral Vision0 mana
  7. Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture0 mana
  8. The Indomitable4 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Freed from the Real3 mana
  2. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Unstoppable Plan3 mana
  6. Genji Glove5 mana
  7. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  8. Merrow Commerce2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  2. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  3. Millikin2 mana
  4. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  5. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  6. Fraying Sanity3 mana
  7. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  8. Sequestered Stash0 mana

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

  1. Thrummingbird2 mana
  2. Vexing Radgull2 mana
  3. Kid Loki1 mana
  4. Dreamtide Whale3 mana
  5. Flux Channeler3 mana
  6. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  7. Walking Ballista0 mana
  8. Forge of Heroes0 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. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  6. Titan's Presence3 mana
  7. Icy Prison2 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Transmute Artifact2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  8. Muddle the Mixture2 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. Desynchronization4 mana
  2. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  3. Whelming Wave4 mana
  4. Consuming Tide4 mana
  5. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  6. Evacuation5 mana
  7. Perplexing Test5 mana
  8. Cyclonic Rift2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Rhystic Study3 mana
  6. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Combat Research1 mana

Combos with Neerdiv, Devious Diver

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Neerdiv, Devious Diver is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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