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Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · {U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

{U}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature or artifact you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

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What Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{U}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature or artifact you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of t

What a Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance deck needs

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

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance deck plan

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

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 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

Best cards for Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance

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 Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Combat Celebrant1,508 decks
• Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Intruder Alarm1,160 decks
• Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Timestream Navigator923 decks
• Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Atsushi, The Blazing Sky + Intruder Alarm305 decks
• Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Minamo, School At Water's Edge + Peregrine Drake185 decks
• Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Phyrexian Altar + Intruder Alarm42 decks

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