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Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
Legendary Creature — Zombie Minotaur Warrior · {2}{R}{R} · Red commander
Trample
Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, you may discard any number of cards. If you do, draw that many cards and add that much {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
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What Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion 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 Neheb deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, you may discard any number of cards. If you do, draw that many cards and add that much {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana
- Keyword · trampletrample
What a Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion deck needs
Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- evasion and protection for the commander (the trigger needs its combat damage to connect)
- discard payoffs, madness and big red spells to cast with the mana it makes
The Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion 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
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
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.
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Archetype of Aggression3 mana
- Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Ajani's Anguish1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana
- Frontier Warmonger4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
- Hoarding Dragon5 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion + Aggravated Assault5,794 decks
- Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion + Hellkite Charger + Kozilek, Butcher Of Truth20 decks
- Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion + Hellkite Charger + Ulamog, The Infinite Gyre11 decks