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Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Legendary Creature — Snake Shaman · {1}{B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander

Whenever Sidisi enters or attacks, mill three cards. Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

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What Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 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 · attackWhenever Sidisi enters or attacks, mill three cards.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

What a Sidisi, Brood Tyrant deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Sidisi, Brood Tyrant deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× 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
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs

Best cards for Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

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.

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