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Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic

Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic

Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Villain · {2}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Photographic Reflexes — At the beginning of your first main phase, until your next turn, Taskmaster becomes a copy of up to one target creature on the battlefield or creature card in a graveyard, except his name is Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic and he's a legendary Human Mercenary Villain creature.
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What Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic 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 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic deck needs

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

The Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic deck plan

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

Best cards for Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic

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.

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

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  3. Baleful Strix2 mana
  4. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  5. Cauldron Familiar1 mana
  6. Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
  7. Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
  8. Plaguecrafter3 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. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  5. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  6. Port of Karfell0 mana
  7. Tomb Fortress0 mana
  8. Millikin2 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. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Fatal Push1 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 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. 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. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. Desynchronization4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Black Market Connections3 mana
  6. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 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. Dimir 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

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