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Raphael, the Muscle

Raphael, the Muscle

Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle · {4}{R} · Red commander

Double all damage that creatures you control with counters on them would deal. When Raphael enters, create a Mutagen token. Partner—Character select (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)
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What Raphael, the Muscle actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Raphael, the Muscle deck needs

Plays as counters damage. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Raphael, the Muscle deck plan

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

Best cards for Raphael, the Muscle

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.

A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one

  1. Impact Tremors2 mana
  2. Shivan Gorge0 mana
  3. Coruscation Mage2 mana
  4. Descent into Avernus3 mana
  5. Ramunap Ruins0 mana
  6. Agate Instigator2 mana
  7. Firebrand Archer2 mana
  8. Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar2 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Cacophony Scamp1 mana
  2. Gallia, the Merrymaker2 mana
  3. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  4. Walking Ballista0 mana
  5. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  6. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  7. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
  8. Opal Palace0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Gamble1 mana
  7. Hoarding Dragon5 mana
  8. Shrine Steward5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  8. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  3. Oketra's Monument3 mana
  4. Artist's Talent2 mana
  5. Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
  6. Roiling Vortex2 mana
  7. Hazoret's Monument3 mana
  8. Rhonas's Monument3 mana

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