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Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · {3}{U} · Blue commander
You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
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What Sakashima of a Thousand Faces actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Static ability · copy_engineYou may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
- Keyword · partnerpartner
What a Sakashima of a Thousand Faces deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
The Sakashima of a Thousand Faces deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 10× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
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.
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Snapcaster Mage2 mana
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian2 mana
- Archaeomancer4 mana
- Urza, Lord High Artificer4 mana
- Aether Channeler3 mana
- Spellseeker3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Icy Prison2 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
- Perplexing Test5 mana
- Cyclonic Rift2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sakashima of a Thousand Faces is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Felidar Guardian3,853 decks
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Orvar, The All-Form + Mind Games3,511 decks
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Orvar, The All-Form + Whim Of Volrath3,210 decks
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Ioreth Of The Healing House2,906 decks
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Orvar, The All-Form + Clockspinning2,676 decks
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Kodama Of The East Tree + Simic Growth Chamber2,674 decks