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Sharuum the Hegemon

Sharuum the Hegemon

Legendary Artifact Creature — Sphinx · {3}{W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander

Flying When Sharuum enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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What Sharuum the Hegemon 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 Sharuum the Hegemon deck needs

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

The Sharuum the Hegemon deck plan

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

Best cards for Sharuum the Hegemon

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.

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

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
  3. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  4. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  5. Flickerwisp3 mana
  6. Soulherder3 mana
  7. Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
  8. Conjurer's Closet5 mana

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Akroma's Will4 mana
  3. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  4. Wonder4 mana
  5. Reverse the Polarity3 mana
  6. Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
  7. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  8. The Wind Crystal4 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 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. Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
  5. Spirited Companion2 mana
  6. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  7. Cauldron Familiar1 mana
  8. Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  4. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  5. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  6. Port of Karfell0 mana
  7. Tomb Fortress0 mana
  8. Millikin2 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. Defile1 mana
  8. Tragic Slip1 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. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  6. Wrath of God4 mana
  7. Day of Judgment4 mana
  8. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana

Combos with Sharuum the Hegemon

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sharuum the Hegemon is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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