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Neyam Shai Murad

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Rogue Trader — Whenever Neyam Shai Murad deals combat damage to a player, you may have that player return target permanent card from their graveyard to their hand. If you do, that player chooses a permanent card in your graveyard, then you put it onto the battlefield under your control.

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What Neyam Shai Murad 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 Neyam Shai Murad deals combat damage to a player, you may have that player return target permanent card from their graveyard to their hand. If you do, that player chooses a permanent card in
• Keyword · rogue traderrogue trader

What a Neyam Shai Murad deck needs

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

• 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 Neyam Shai Murad 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
• 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 Neyam Shai Murad

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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