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Nihiloor

Legendary Creature — Horror · {2}{W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander

When Nihiloor enters, for each opponent, tap up to one untapped creature you control. When you do, gain control of target creature that player controls with power less than or equal to the tapped creature's power for as long as you control Nihiloor. Whenever you attack with a creature an opponent owns, you gain 2 life and that player loses 2 life.

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What Nihiloor 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 · etbWhen Nihiloor enters, for each opponent, tap up to one untapped creature you control. When you do, gain control of target creature that player controls with power less than or equal to the tapped crea
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever you attack with a creature an opponent owns, you gain 2 life and that player loses 2 life.

What a Nihiloor deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• a wide board that attacks every turn (the trigger fires on the attack)

The Nihiloor deck plan

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

• 11× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 15× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 13× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Nihiloor

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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