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Ray Fillet, Man Ray

Legendary Creature — Fish Mutant · {3}{U} · Blue commander

Flying When Ray Fillet enters, create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.") {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

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What Ray Fillet, Man Ray 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 · etbWhen Ray Fillet enters, create a Mutagen token.
• Activated ability{2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Ray Fillet, Man Ray deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)

The Ray Fillet, Man Ray deck plan

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

• 10× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 11× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 18× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Ray Fillet, Man Ray

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 Ray Fillet, Man Ray

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ray Fillet, Man Ray is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Ray Fillet, Man Ray + Berta, Wise Extrapolator + Biomancer's Familiar + Lyla, Holographic Assistant6 decks
• Ray Fillet, Man Ray + Berta, Wise Extrapolator + Training Grounds + Lyla, Holographic Assistant6 decks
• Ray Fillet, Man Ray + Berta, Wise Extrapolator + Wizard Class + Biomancer's Familiar5 decks
• Ray Fillet, Man Ray + Berta, Wise Extrapolator + Wizard Class + Training Grounds4 decks
• Ray Fillet, Man Ray + Berta, Wise Extrapolator + Heartstone + Lyla, Holographic Assistant2 decks
• Ray Fillet, Man Ray + Berta, Wise Extrapolator + Wizard Class + Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron

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