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Taigam, Master Opportunist

Taigam, Master Opportunist

Legendary Creature — Human Monk · {1}{U} · Blue commander

Flurry — Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, then exile the spell you cast with four time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)
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What Taigam, Master Opportunist 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 Taigam, Master Opportunist deck needs

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

The Taigam, Master Opportunist deck plan

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

Best cards for Taigam, Master Opportunist

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.

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  3. Brainstorm1 mana
  4. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  5. Opt1 mana
  6. Ponder1 mana
  7. Pongify1 mana
  8. Preordain1 mana

A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  7. Pact of Negation0 mana
  8. Walking Ballista0 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  6. Titan's Presence3 mana
  7. Icy Prison2 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Personal Tutor1 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. Desynchronization4 mana
  2. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  3. Whelming Wave4 mana
  4. Consuming Tide4 mana
  5. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  6. Evacuation5 mana
  7. Perplexing Test5 mana
  8. Cyclonic Rift2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Rhystic Study3 mana
  6. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Combat Research1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Combos with Taigam, Master Opportunist

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Taigam, Master Opportunist is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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