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The Master of Lake-town
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · {1}{B}{B} · Black commander
Deathtouch
Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
When The Master of Lake-town dies, draw a card for each graveyard with seven or more cards in it.
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What The Master of Lake-town 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 · otherWhenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards.
- Triggered ability · deathWhen The Master of Lake-town dies, draw a card for each graveyard with seven or more cards in it.
- Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
What a The Master of Lake-town deck needs
Plays as mill. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- opponent-mill spells and permanents, and mill payoffs (their library is the win)
- sacrifice outlets and recursion for the commander (its own death is the payoff)
The The Master of Lake-town deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 31× Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
- 10× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for The Master of Lake-town
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.
Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
- Altar of the Brood1 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Eye Collector1 mana
- Mindwrack Harpy4 mana
- Mindcrank2 mana
- Codex Shredder1 mana
- Whetstone3 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Dark Privilege2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with The Master of Lake-town
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Master of Lake-town is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- The Master of Lake-town + Bloodchief Ascension4,241 decks
- The Master of Lake-town + Duskmantle Guildmage1,270 decks
- The Master of Lake-town + Nim Deathmantle + Skirge Familiar + Ashnod's Altar5 decks
- The Master of Lake-town + Nim Deathmantle + Skirge Familiar + Viscera Seer2 decks
- The Master of Lake-town + Nim Deathmantle + Skirge Familiar + Phyrexian Altar2 decks
- The Master of Lake-town + Nim Deathmantle + Skirge Familiar + Altar Of Dementia2 decks