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The Celestial Toymaker

Legendary Creature — Rogue Artificer · {W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander

Whenever The Celestial Toymaker attacks, look at the top three cards of your library. Exile any number of them in a face-down pile and the rest in a face-up pile. Defending player chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand. At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses 2 life for each spell or ability that caused one or more players to guess or to group cards or permanents into a pile this turn.

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What The Celestial Toymaker 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 The Celestial Toymaker attacks, look at the top three cards of your library. Exile any number of them in a face-down pile and the rest in a face-up pile. Defending player chooses one of those
• Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses 2 life for each spell or ability that caused one or more players to guess or to group cards or permanents into a pile this turn.

What a The Celestial Toymaker deck needs

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

• drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The The Celestial Toymaker deck plan

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

• 15× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for The Celestial Toymaker

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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