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Pir, Imaginative Rascal
Legendary Creature — Human · {2}{G} · Green commander
Partner with Toothy, Imaginary Friend (When this creature enters, target player may put Toothy into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
If one or more counters would be put on a permanent your team controls, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead.
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What Pir, Imaginative Rascal actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · counter_doublerIf one or more counters would be put on a permanent your team controls, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead.
What a Pir, Imaginative Rascal deck needs
Plays as counters engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- counter producers and proliferate (every counter placed is multiplied)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
The Pir, Imaginative Rascal deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 25× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 16× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 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
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Pir, Imaginative Rascal
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.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Evolution Sage3 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Bloated Contaminator3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
- Throne of Geth2 mana
- Surge Conductor3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
Combos with Pir, Imaginative Rascal
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Pir, Imaginative Rascal is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Pir, Imaginative Rascal + Vigor + Walking Ballista520 decks
- Pir, Imaginative Rascal + Crystalline Crawler + Simic Ascendancy + Branching Evolution429 decks
- Pir, Imaginative Rascal + Crystalline Crawler + Simic Ascendancy + Corpsejack Menace310 decks
- Pir, Imaginative Rascal + Crystalline Crawler + Simic Ascendancy + Doubling Season309 decks
- Pir, Imaginative Rascal + Magistrate's Scepter + Contagion Engine297 decks
- Pir, Imaginative Rascal + Crystalline Crawler + Simic Ascendancy + Innkeeper's Talent281 decks