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Sabin, Master Monk

Sabin, Master Monk

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Monk · {4}{R} · Red commander

Double strike Blitz—{2}{R}{R}, Discard a card. (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.) You may cast this card from your graveyard using its blitz ability.
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What Sabin, Master Monk 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 Sabin, Master Monk deck needs

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

The Sabin, Master Monk deck plan

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

Best cards for Sabin, Master Monk

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 your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  2. Millikin2 mana
  3. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  4. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  5. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  6. Sequestered Stash0 mana
  7. Excavated Wall1 mana
  8. Wand of Vertebrae1 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. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  2. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  3. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  4. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  5. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  6. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  7. Gamble1 mana
  8. Hoarding Dragon5 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

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

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  3. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  4. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  5. Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
  6. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  7. Ajani's Anguish1 mana
  8. Shadowspear1 mana

Combos with Sabin, Master Monk

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sabin, Master Monk is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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