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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

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What a Ronin, Shadow Stalker deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many 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. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

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

  1. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  2. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Genji Glove5 mana
  6. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  7. Tiller Engine2 mana
  8. Sword of the Paruns4 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Blade of the Oni2 mana
  2. Leech Gauntlet2 mana
  3. Chainflail Centipede3 mana
  4. Harvest Hand // Scrounged Scythe3 mana
  5. Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound7 mana
  6. Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound7 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. Paradise Mantle0 mana
  8. Trailblazer's Boots2 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Avacyn's Collar1 mana
  2. Slayer's Plate3 mana
  3. Tatsumasa, the Dragon's Fang6 mana
  4. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  5. Staff of Titania2 mana
  6. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  7. Sword of Body and Mind3 mana
  8. Wand of Orcus3 mana

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

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  3. Shadowspear1 mana
  4. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  5. Skorpekh Lord3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. Chronicle of Victory6 mana
  8. Super State7 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

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 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. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

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