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Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression

Legendary Creature — Djinn Wizard // Legendary Creature — Efreet Shaman · {2}{U} {3}{R}{R} · Red/Blue commander

{T}: You may exile an instant or sorcery card from your hand and put three refine counters on it. It gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled, remove a refine counter from it" and "When the last refine counter is removed from this card, if it's exiled, you may cast it. It costs {4} less to cast this way." At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells. Whenever you cast a spell from exile, put a +1/+1 counter on Nassari.

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What Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression actually does

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

• Activated ability{T}: You may exile an instant or sorcery card from your hand and put three refine counters on it. It gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled, remove a refine counter from it" an
• Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of a
• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a spell from exile, put a +1/+1 counter on Nassari.

What an Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression deck needs

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

• spells you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and the command zone (only those trigger it)
• cards that exile from your own library and play from exile (its payoff fires on every card played from exile)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression deck plan

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

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 9× Control the top of your library and play from it — Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack, play-from-top permanents
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 10× Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander
• 10× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
• 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 4× Take what the opponents own — gain control of their permanents, or cast or play their cards
• 2× Make opponents sacrifice — an edict on every player or each opponent (Tergrid takes what they sacrifice)
• 2× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

Best cards for Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression

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