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Vraska, the Silencer

Vraska, the Silencer

Legendary Creature — Gorgon Assassin · {1}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Deathtouch Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield tapped under your control. It's a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color," and it loses all other card types.
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What Vraska, the Silencer actually does

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What a Vraska, the Silencer deck wants

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Best cards for Vraska, the Silencer

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Runadi, Behemoth Caller3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. Super State7 mana
  8. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana

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

  1. Bear Umbra4 mana
  2. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  3. Wilderness Reclamation4 mana
  4. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  5. Beledros Witherbloom7 mana
  6. Nature's Will4 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Umbral Mantle3 mana

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

  1. Goldvein Hydra1 mana
  2. Greedy Freebooter1 mana
  3. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  4. Tireless Provisioner3 mana
  5. Gala Greeters2 mana
  6. Prosperous Innkeeper2 mana
  7. Shambling Ghast1 mana
  8. Warren Soultrader3 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Phyrexian Tower0 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Grim Backwoods0 mana
  4. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  5. Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
  6. Scavenger's Talent1 mana
  7. Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
  8. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Fatal Push1 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Nature's Claim1 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. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  7. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  8. Nature's Rhythm2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Cryptothrall4 mana
  4. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Asceticism5 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

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