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Satoru, the Infiltrator

Satoru, the Infiltrator

Legendary Creature — Human Ninja Rogue · {U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Menace Whenever Satoru and/or one or more other nontoken creatures you control enter, if none of them were cast or no mana was spent to cast them, draw a card.
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What Satoru, the Infiltrator actually does

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What a Satoru, the Infiltrator deck needs

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

The Satoru, the Infiltrator deck plan

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

Best cards for Satoru, the Infiltrator

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.

Get your board back after a wipe

  1. Victimize3 mana
  2. Lively Dirge2 mana
  3. Living Death5 mana
  4. Gisa, Glorious Resurrector4 mana
  5. Liliana's Talent2 mana
  6. Living End0 mana
  7. Rise of the Dark Realms9 mana
  8. Patriarch's Bidding5 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Gossip's Talent2 mana
  4. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
  5. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  6. Voyager Staff1 mana
  7. Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
  8. Deadeye Navigator6 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  3. Baleful Strix2 mana
  4. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  5. Cauldron Familiar1 mana
  6. Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
  7. Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
  8. Plaguecrafter3 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Fatal Push1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Tainted Pact2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 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. Desynchronization4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Black Market Connections3 mana
  6. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lost in the Maze2 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

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