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Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

Legendary Creature — Human Fungus Pirate · {B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander

{T}, Remove a counter from another permanent you control: Populate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Proliferate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
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What Xavier Sal, Infested Captain actually does

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What a Xavier Sal, Infested Captain deck needs

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

The Xavier Sal, Infested Captain deck plan

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

Best cards for Xavier Sal, Infested 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. Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Runadi, Behemoth Caller3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
  8. Lavaspur Boots1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Winding Constrictor2 mana
  5. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  6. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  7. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  8. The Earth Crystal4 mana

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

  1. Bear Umbra4 mana
  2. Freed from the Real3 mana
  3. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  4. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  5. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  6. Unstoppable Plan3 mana
  7. Genji Glove5 mana
  8. Copperhorn Scout1 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  2. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  3. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  4. The Scarab God5 mana
  5. Endless Evil3 mana
  6. Old-Growth Troll3 mana
  7. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
  8. Grixis Slavedriver6 mana

Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Thrummingbird2 mana
  3. Evolution Sage3 mana
  4. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  5. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  6. Yawgmoth, Thran Physician4 mana
  7. Bloated Contaminator3 mana
  8. Dreamtide Whale3 mana

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

  1. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  2. Replicating Ring3 mana
  3. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  4. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  5. Wrenn and Seven5 mana
  6. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  7. Rampant Frogantua3 mana
  8. Field of the Dead0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Finale of Devastation2 mana
  2. Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
  3. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  4. Return of the Wildspeaker5 mana
  5. Assault Formation2 mana
  6. Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
  7. Sylvan Anthem2 mana
  8. Weaver of Harmony2 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Reality Shift2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Defile1 mana
  7. Tragic Slip1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 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. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Neoform2 mana

Combos with Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Xavier Sal, Infested Captain is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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