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The Unspeakable

The Unspeakable

Legendary Creature — Spirit · {6}{U}{U}{U} · Blue commander

Flying, trample Whenever The Unspeakable deals combat damage to a player, you may return target Arcane card from your graveyard to your hand.
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What The Unspeakable actually does

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What a The Unspeakable deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for The Unspeakable

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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

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Secret Tunnel0 mana
  2. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  3. Irenicus's Vile Duplication4 mana
  4. Rhonas's Monument3 mana
  5. Thassa, God of the Sea3 mana
  6. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  7. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  8. Mothdust Changeling1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Brain Freeze2 mana
  3. Mindcrank2 mana
  4. Codex Shredder1 mana
  5. Hedron Crab1 mana
  6. Thought Scour1 mana
  7. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 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. Transmute Artifact2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  8. Muddle the Mixture2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Rhystic Study3 mana
  6. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Combat Research1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  3. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

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