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Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock Bard · {1}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Whenever Totentanz or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block." {1}{B}: Target attacking Rat you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.
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What Totentanz, Swarm Piper actually does

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What a Totentanz, Swarm Piper deck needs

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

The Totentanz, Swarm Piper deck plan

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

Best cards for Totentanz, Swarm Piper

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.

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Greedy Freebooter1 mana
  3. Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
  4. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  5. Burglar Rat2 mana
  6. Dire Fleet Daredevil2 mana
  7. Fanatical Firebrand1 mana
  8. Freya Crescent1 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Carrion Feeder1 mana
  2. Viscera Seer1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Goblin Bombardment2 mana
  5. Spawning Pit2 mana
  6. Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
  7. Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
  8. Dark Privilege2 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  2. Castle Embereth0 mana
  3. Great Train Heist1 mana
  4. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  5. Rising of the Day3 mana
  6. Purphoros, God of the Forge4 mana
  7. Kavaron, Memorial World0 mana
  8. Adaptive Automaton3 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Terminate2 mana
  6. Fatal Push1 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Black Sun's Twilight1 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. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Herald's Horn3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

Combos with Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Totentanz, Swarm Piper is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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