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The Master, Transcendent
Legendary Artifact Creature — Mutant · {1}{B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander
When The Master enters, target player gets two rad counters.
{T}: Put target creature card in a graveyard that was milled this turn onto the battlefield under your control. It's a green Mutant with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses its other colors and creature types.)
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What The Master, Transcendent 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 · etbWhen The Master enters, target player gets two rad counters.
- Activated ability{T}: Put target creature card in a graveyard that was milled this turn onto the battlefield under your control. It's a green Mutant with base power and toughness 3/3.
What a The Master, Transcendent deck needs
Plays as ETB value. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- mill — any creature card milled this turn can be put onto the battlefield (rad counters and mill effects)
- haste and untap effects that reach the commander
The The Master, Transcendent deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 6× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 9× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 8× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 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
Best cards for The Master, Transcendent
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 haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Gossip's Talent2 mana
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
- Deadeye Navigator6 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Bear Umbra4 mana
- Freed from the Real3 mana
- Pemmin's Aura3 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Unstoppable Plan3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
- Copperhorn Scout1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Baleful Strix2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
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
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 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 spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 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
- Vicious Rivalry4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
Combos with The Master, Transcendent
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Master, Transcendent is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- The Master, Transcendent + Intruder Alarm + Altar Of Dementia + Golgari Thug62 decks
- The Master, Transcendent + Intruder Alarm + Altar Of Dementia + Mortuary14 decks
- The Master, Transcendent + Intruder Alarm + Altar Of Dementia + Hua Tuo, Honored Physician10 decks
- The Master, Transcendent + Thornbite Staff + Altar Of Dementia + Mortuary3 decks
- The Master, Transcendent + Intruder Alarm + Altar Of Dementia + Aphetto Vulture2 decks
- The Master, Transcendent + Thornbite Staff + Altar Of Dementia + Aphetto Vulture1 decks
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