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Squall, SeeD Mercenary

Squall, SeeD Mercenary

Legendary Creature — Human Knight Mercenary · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Rough Divide — Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains double strike until end of turn. Whenever Squall deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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What Squall, SeeD Mercenary actually does

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What a Squall, SeeD Mercenary deck needs

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

The Squall, SeeD Mercenary deck plan

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

Best cards for Squall, SeeD Mercenary

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Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  2. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  3. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. On Wings of Gold4 mana
  6. Ninja Teen3 mana
  7. Shadowspear1 mana
  8. Bilbo's Ring3 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. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  5. Tomb Fortress0 mana
  6. Millikin2 mana
  7. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  8. Syr Konrad, the Grim5 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. 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 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

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  6. General's Enforcer2 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

Combos with Squall, SeeD Mercenary

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Squall, SeeD Mercenary is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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