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Sengir, the Dark Baron

Legendary Creature — Vampire Noble · {4}{B}{B} · Black commander

Flying Whenever another creature dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Sengir. Whenever another player loses the game, you gain life equal to that player's life total as the turn began. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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What Sengir, the Dark Baron actually does

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

• Triggered ability · deathWhenever another creature dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Sengir.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever another player loses the game, you gain life equal to that player's life total as the turn began.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · partnerpartner

What a Sengir, the Dark Baron deck needs

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

• expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Sengir, the Dark Baron deck plan

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

• 20× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
• 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Sengir, the Dark Baron

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 Sengir, the Dark Baron

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sengir, the Dark Baron is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Sengir, the Dark Baron + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar44 decks
• Sengir, the Dark Baron + Ghave, Guru Of Spores + Ashnod's Altar27 decks
• Sengir, the Dark Baron + Animation Module + Phyrexian Altar22 decks
• Sengir, the Dark Baron + Ghave, Guru Of Spores + Phyrexian Altar18 decks
• Sengir, the Dark Baron + Ghave, Guru Of Spores + Utopia Mycon17 decks
• Sengir, the Dark Baron + Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Walking Ballista8 decks

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