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Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric · {2}{B}{B} · Black commander
What Yawgmoth, Thran Physician actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated abilityPay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
- Activated ability{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate.
What a Yawgmoth, Thran Physician deck needs
Plays as aristocrats — −1/−1 counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and tokens (sacrifice to draw and place −1/−1 counters)
- −1/−1 counter and death payoffs (Nest of Scarabs, Blood Artist)
- proliferate synergies
The Yawgmoth, Thran Physician deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 22× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 6× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
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 +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
- Opal Palace0 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Nurgle's Rot1 mana
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
- Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Enduring Tenacity4 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician4 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
- Throne of Geth2 mana
- Surge Conductor3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Yawgmoth, Thran Physician is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Zulaport Cutthroat + Pawn Of Ulamog23,358 decks
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Blood Artist + Pawn Of Ulamog23,284 decks
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Bastion Of Remembrance + Pawn Of Ulamog17,012 decks
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + Gray Merchant Of Asphodel15,329 decks
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Nest Of Scarabs + Blood Artist14,346 decks
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Pawn Of Ulamog + Sephiroth, Fabled Soldier13,538 decks
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