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The Destined Thief

The Destined Thief

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · {2}{U} · Blue commander

The Destined Thief can't be blocked. {U}, {T}: Another target creature you control can't be blocked this turn. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to one or more players, draw a card, then discard a card. If you have a full party, instead draw three cards.
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What The Destined Thief actually does

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What a The Destined Thief deck wants

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Best cards for The Destined Thief

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Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  2. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  3. Freed from the Real3 mana
  4. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  5. Retreat to Coralhelm3 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  8. Genji Glove5 mana

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

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  3. Favorable Winds2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. Archetype of Imagination6 mana

A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

  1. Weathered Sentinels3 mana
  2. Twenty-Toed Toad4 mana
  3. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger // Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger0 mana
  4. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  5. Katara, Waterbending Master2 mana
  6. Marching Duodrone2 mana
  7. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  8. Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul3 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  2. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  3. Urza's Saga0 mana
  4. Idol of False Gods2 mana
  5. Myr Sire2 mana
  6. Field of the Dead0 mana
  7. Fountainport0 mana
  8. Pongify1 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. Suspend1 mana
  6. Snap2 mana
  7. Into the Flood Maw1 mana
  8. Planar Incision2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Displacement Wave2 mana
  2. Filter Out3 mana
  3. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  4. Coercive Portal4 mana
  5. Whelming Wave4 mana
  6. Consuming Tide4 mana
  7. Llawan, Cephalid Empress4 mana
  8. Part the Veil4 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 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

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