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The Wise Mothman

Legendary Creature — Insect Mutant · {1}{B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander

Flying Whenever The Wise Mothman enters or attacks, each player gets a rad counter. Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures, where X is the number of nonland cards milled this way.

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What The Wise Mothman 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 · attackWhenever The Wise Mothman enters or attacks, each player gets a rad counter.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever one or more nonland cards are milled, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures, where X is the number of nonland cards milled this way.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a The Wise Mothman deck needs

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

• mill of any kind — self-mill and opponent mill (each nonland card milled is a +1/+1 counter)
• more rad counters (every player's rad counters mill each turn)
• creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters

The The Wise Mothman deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 6× 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

Best cards for The Wise Mothman

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.

Combos with The Wise Mothman

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Wise Mothman is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• The Wise Mothman + Benthic Biomancer + Life From The Loam132 decks
• The Wise Mothman + Benthic Biomancer + Golgari Grave-Troll40 decks
• The Wise Mothman + Benthic Biomancer + Stinkweed Imp26 decks
• The Wise Mothman + Moss-Pit Skeleton + Altar Of Dementia + Scurry Oak25 decks
• The Wise Mothman + Benthic Biomancer + Golgari Thug21 decks
• The Wise Mothman + Moss-Pit Skeleton + Altar Of Dementia + Herd Baloth19 decks

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