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Winter, Misanthropic Guide

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

Ward {2} At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws two cards. Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, each opponent's maximum hand size is equal to seven minus the number of those card types.

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What Winter, Misanthropic Guide 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 · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws two cards.
• Keyword · wardward
• AbilityDelirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, each opponent's maximum hand size is equal to seven minus the number of those card types.

What a Winter, Misanthropic Guide deck needs

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

• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• punishers that make opponents' draws hurt (it makes the whole table draw)

The Winter, Misanthropic Guide deck plan

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

• 20× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Refill your hand
• 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Winter, Misanthropic Guide

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.

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