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Tayam, Luminous Enigma
Legendary Creature — Nightmare Beast · {1}{W}{B}{G} · Black/Green/White commander
What Tayam, Luminous Enigma actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{3}, Remove three counters from among creatures you control: Mill three cards, then return a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
What a Tayam, Luminous Enigma deck needs
Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures and permanents with counters to spend (it removes three to reanimate a small permanent)
- self-mill
The Tayam, Luminous Enigma deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
Best cards for Tayam, Luminous Enigma
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.
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Selesnya Signet2 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Cleric Class1 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Mirror Entity3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Conclave Mentor2 mana
- Winding Constrictor2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
Combos with Tayam, Luminous Enigma
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Tayam, Luminous Enigma is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Devoted Druid7,854 decks
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Ashnod's Altar + Strangleroot Geist + Young Wolf3,612 decks
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Promise Of Bunrei + Ashnod's Altar2,471 decks
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Wall Of Roots + Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Ashnod's Altar + Orcish Bowmasters1,947 decks
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Weaponcraft Enthusiast + Ashnod's Altar1,095 decks
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Wall Of Roots + Ashnod's Altar + Winding Constrictor981 decks
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