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Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Legendary Creature — Monkey Pirate · {R} · Red commander

Whenever Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card. Dash {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

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What Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer 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 · deals_damageWhenever Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card.
• Keyword · dashdash

What a Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer deck needs

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

• evasion and protection for Ragavan (the trigger needs combat damage)
• cheap interaction to clear blockers
• treasure and stolen-card payoffs (artifact-count, spell-copy)

The Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer deck plan

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

• 12× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 10× 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
• 8× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

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.

Combos with Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer + Fable Of The Mirror-Breaker + Combat Celebrant1,779 decks
• Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer + Yomiji, Who Bars The Way + Phyrexian Altar9 decks
• Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer + Yomiji, Who Bars The Way + Thermopod1 decks

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