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Prosper, Tome-Bound
Legendary Creature — Tiefling Warlock · {2}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
What Prosper, Tome-Bound 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
- Triggered ability · exileWhenever you play a card from exile, create a Treasure token.
- Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
What a Prosper, Tome-Bound deck needs
Plays as exile matters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures, Clues or Food on repeat)
- cards that exile from your own library and play from exile (its payoff fires on every card played from exile)
The Prosper, Tome-Bound deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Prosper, Tome-Bound
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.
Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander
- Ugin's Labyrinth0 mana
- Party Thrasher2 mana
- Passionate Archaeologist2 mana
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
- Endless Sands0 mana
- Mimic Vat3 mana
- Squee, the Immortal3 mana
- Valakut Exploration3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Prosper, Tome-Bound
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Prosper, Tome-Bound is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Prosper, Tome-Bound + Birgi, God Of Storytelling + Sensei's Divining Top7,863 decks
- Prosper, Tome-Bound + Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Sensei's Divining Top + Reckless Fireweaver4,713 decks
- Prosper, Tome-Bound + Professional Face-Breaker + Sensei's Divining Top + Xorn4,418 decks
- Prosper, Tome-Bound + Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Sensei's Divining Top + Mayhem Devil4,371 decks
- Prosper, Tome-Bound + Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Sensei's Divining Top + Weftstalker Ardent1,412 decks
- Prosper, Tome-Bound + Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Sensei's Divining Top + Ingenious Artillerist735 decks
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