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Shiko, Paragon of the Way

Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon · {2}{U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

Flying, vigilance When Shiko enters, exile target nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. Copy it, then you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

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What Shiko, Paragon of the Way 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 · etbWhen Shiko enters, exile target nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. Copy it, then you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What a Shiko, Paragon of the Way deck needs

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

• cheap spells in the graveyard worth recasting (its enter copies one free)
• blink for the commander

The Shiko, Paragon of the Way deck plan

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

• 10× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Shiko, Paragon of the Way

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 Shiko, Paragon of the Way

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Shiko, Paragon of the Way is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Shiko, Paragon of the Way + Pull From Eternity + Another Round + Thousand-Year Storm111 decks
• Shiko, Paragon of the Way + Pull From Eternity + Another Round + Swarm Intelligence12 decks

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