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Ronin, Shadow Stalker

Ronin, Shadow Stalker

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue Hero · {2}{B} · Black commander

Pay 2 life: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast Equipment spells or activate equip abilities. Activate only once each turn. {T}, Sacrifice an Equipment attached to Ronin: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
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What Ronin, Shadow Stalker 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 Ronin, Shadow Stalker deck needs

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

The Ronin, Shadow Stalker deck plan

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

Best cards for Ronin, Shadow Stalker

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  2. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  3. Genji Glove5 mana
  4. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  5. Sword of the Paruns4 mana
  6. Deserted Temple0 mana
  7. Leyline Dowser2 mana
  8. Pip-Boy 30001 mana

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  3. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  4. Ninja Teen3 mana
  5. Shadowspear1 mana
  6. Bilbo's Ring3 mana
  7. Cliffhaven Kitesail1 mana
  8. Zephyr Boots1 mana

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

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

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