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Oji, the Exquisite Blade

Legendary Creature — Human Monk · {2}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander

When Oji enters, you gain 2 life and scry 2. Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, exile up to one target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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What Oji, the Exquisite Blade 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 Oji enters, you gain 2 life and scry 2.
• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast your second spell each turn, exile up to one target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

What an Oji, the Exquisite Blade deck needs

Plays as spellslinger. 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)
• two cheap spells in one turn — cantrips, rituals, free spells and cost reducers (its trigger fires on your second spell each turn, never on a lone spell)
• permanents with enter-the-battlefield triggers (it blinks them on a schedule)

The Oji, the Exquisite Blade deck plan

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

• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 22× A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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 Oji, the Exquisite Blade

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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