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Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain

Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain

Legendary Artifact // Legendary Creature — Skeleton Spirit Pirate · {2} · Black commander

{T}: Mill two cards. Craft with a Dinosaur, a Merfolk, a Pirate, and a Vampire {4} ({4}, Exile this artifact, Exile the four from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.) Menace, trample, lifelink, hexproof Whenever The Grim Captain attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice. Then you may put an exiled creature card used to craft The Grim Captain onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking.
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What Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain actually does

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What a Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain deck wants

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Best cards for Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain

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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. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

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

  1. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  2. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Genji Glove5 mana
  6. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  7. Tiller Engine2 mana
  8. Sword of the Paruns4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  2. Millikin2 mana
  3. Excavated Wall1 mana
  4. Eye Collector1 mana
  5. Gnawing Vermin1 mana
  6. Thieves' Guild Enforcer1 mana
  7. Golgari Thug2 mana
  8. Mire Triton2 mana

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

  1. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  2. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  3. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  4. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  5. Liliana, the Last Hope3 mana
  6. Nest of Scarabs3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Grave Titan6 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Mindcrank2 mana
  5. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  6. Codex Shredder1 mana
  7. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  8. Tomb Fortress0 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

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  8. Diabolic Intent2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Kederekt Parasite1 mana

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