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Papalymo Totolymo

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Wizard · {W}{B} · Black/White commander

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Papalymo Totolymo deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Papalymo Totolymo: Each opponent who lost life this turn sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control.

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What Papalymo Totolymo 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 noncreature spell, Papalymo Totolymo deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
• Activated ability{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Papalymo Totolymo: Each opponent who lost life this turn sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control.

What a Papalymo Totolymo deck needs

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

• noncreature spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)
• damage and drain every turn (its effect is sized by the life the opponents lost this turn)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Papalymo Totolymo deck plan

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

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 14× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 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
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Papalymo Totolymo

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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