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Rasaad yn Bashir

Legendary Creature — Human Monk · {2}{W} · White commander

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Whenever Rasaad yn Bashir attacks, if you have the initiative, double the toughness of each creature you control until end of turn. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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What Rasaad yn Bashir 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 · attackWhenever Rasaad yn Bashir attacks, if you have the initiative, double the toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
• Keyword · choose a backgroundchoose a background
• AbilityEach creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

What a Rasaad yn Bashir deck needs

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

• high-toughness creatures — walls, defenders and +0/+X effects (its text reads the team's toughness)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Rasaad yn Bashir deck plan

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

• 20× 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
• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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 Rasaad yn Bashir

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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