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Shessra, Death's Whisper

Shessra, Death's Whisper

Legendary Creature — Human Elf Warlock · {2}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Bewitching Whispers — When Shessra enters, target creature blocks this turn if able. Whispers of the Grave — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
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What Shessra, Death's Whisper actually does

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What a Shessra, Death's Whisper deck needs

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

The Shessra, Death's Whisper deck plan

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

Best cards for Shessra, Death's Whisper

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. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  2. Voyager Staff1 mana
  3. Golden Argosy4 mana
  4. Diabolic Servitude4 mana
  5. Meandering Towershell5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
  7. Ashnod's Intervention1 mana

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

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Eternal Witness3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  5. Arboreal Grazer1 mana
  6. Cauldron Familiar1 mana
  7. Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
  8. Plaguecrafter3 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. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  3. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  4. Old-Growth Troll3 mana
  5. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
  6. Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
  7. Enduring Vitality3 mana
  8. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Carrion Feeder1 mana
  2. Viscera Seer1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Spawning Pit2 mana
  5. Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
  6. Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
  7. Dark Privilege2 mana
  8. Ashnod's Altar3 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Fatal Push1 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Nature's Claim1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Grim Tutor3 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. Vicious Rivalry4 mana
  8. Endemic Plague4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

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