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Nico Minoru, Runaway

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock Hero · {3}{R} · Red commander

Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, Nico Minoru deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

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What Nico Minoru, Runaway 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, Nico Minoru deals 2 damage to each opponent.
• Activated ability{2}{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

What a Nico Minoru, Runaway deck needs

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

• spells you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and the command zone (only those trigger it)
• expensive spells only — cascade and free casts take the next cheaper card, so a cheap card is a defect
• looting and discard outlets (it rewards your own discards)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Nico Minoru, Runaway deck plan

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

• 32× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 18× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
• 10× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Nico Minoru, Runaway

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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