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Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow

Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow

Legendary Creature — Bird Cleric // Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · {1}{W} // {2}{B}{B} · Black/White commander

Flying, vigilance {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered the battlefield under your control this turn. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature, then Embrose deals 2 damage to that creature. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.
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What Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow 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 Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow deck needs

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

The Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow deck plan

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

Best cards for Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow

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 haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  2. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  3. Genji Glove5 mana
  4. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  5. White Plume Adventurer3 mana
  6. Sword of the Paruns4 mana
  7. Gauntlets of Light3 mana
  8. Drumbellower3 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
  2. Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
  3. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  4. Grateful Apparition2 mana
  5. Metastatic Evangel2 mana
  6. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  7. Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
  8. Generous Pup2 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  2. Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
  3. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  4. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  5. Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
  6. Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin4 mana
  7. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
  8. Grixis Slavedriver6 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Carrion Feeder1 mana
  2. Viscera Seer1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Bartolomé del Presidio2 mana
  5. Spawning Pit2 mana
  6. Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
  7. Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
  8. Cartel Aristocrat2 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  6. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Bitter Triumph2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Day of Judgment4 mana
  7. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  8. Kaya's Wrath4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

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