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The Raven Man

The Raven Man

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {1}{B} · Black commander

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This token can't block." {3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
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What The Raven Man actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a The Raven Man deck needs

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

The The Raven Man deck plan

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

Best cards for The Raven Man

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

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on

  1. Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
  2. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  3. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
  4. Liliana of the Veil3 mana
  5. Rankle, Master of Pranks4 mana
  6. Anvil of Bogardan2 mana
  7. The Raven Man2 mana
  8. Drainpipe Vermin1 mana

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

  1. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  2. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  3. Genji Glove5 mana
  4. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  5. Sword of the Paruns4 mana
  6. Deserted Temple0 mana
  7. Leyline Dowser2 mana
  8. Pip-Boy 30001 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  3. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  4. Field of the Dead0 mana
  5. Fountainport0 mana
  6. Grave Titan6 mana
  7. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  8. Spawnbed Protector7 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  2. Chief of the Foundry3 mana
  3. Caged Sun6 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Heroes' Podium5 mana
  6. Endurance Bobblehead3 mana
  7. Skorpekh Lord3 mana
  8. Mikaeus, the Unhallowed6 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

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