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Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper

Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Ally · {3}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.
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What Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper 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 Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper deck needs

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

The Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper deck plan

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

Best cards for Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper

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.

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  3. Brainstorm1 mana
  4. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  5. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  6. Opt1 mana
  7. Path to Exile1 mana
  8. Ponder1 mana

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  3. Brainstorm1 mana
  4. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  5. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  6. Opt1 mana
  7. Path to Exile1 mana
  8. Ponder1 mana

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

  1. Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
  2. Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
  3. Thrummingbird2 mana
  4. Grateful Apparition2 mana
  5. Metastatic Evangel2 mana
  6. Vexing Radgull2 mana
  7. Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
  8. Generous Pup2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Generous Gift3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Open the Armory2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  8. Mystical Tutor1 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. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  3. Wrath of God4 mana
  4. Day of Judgment4 mana
  5. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  6. Split Up3 mana
  7. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  8. Depopulate4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Combos with Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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