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Yomiji, Who Bars the Way
Legendary Creature — Spirit · {5}{W}{W} · White commander
Whenever a legendary permanent other than Yomiji is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to its owner's hand.
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What Yomiji, Who Bars the Way 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 · otherWhenever a legendary permanent other than Yomiji is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to its owner's hand.
What a Yomiji, Who Bars the Way deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- legendary permanents (each one hitting a graveyard returns to its owner's hand)
The Yomiji, Who Bars the Way deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 9× 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
- 10× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Yomiji, Who Bars the Way
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.
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison4 mana
- Dunes of the Dead0 mana
- Belonging6 mana
- Platoon Dispenser5 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
- Phyrexian Altar3 mana
- Fanatical Devotion3 mana
- Martyr's Cause3 mana
- Bound by Moonsilver3 mana
- High Market0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
- You Cannot Pass!1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
- Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
- Search for Glory3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Mentor of the Meek3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 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 Yomiji, Who Bars the Way
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Yomiji, Who Bars the Way is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Yomiji, Who Bars the Way + Phyrexian Altar229 decks
- Yomiji, Who Bars the Way + Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate141 decks
- Yomiji, Who Bars the Way + Hope Of Ghirapur + Ashnod's Altar122 decks
- Yomiji, Who Bars the Way + Krark-Clan Ironworks120 decks
- Yomiji, Who Bars the Way + Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful + Phyrexian Altar109 decks
- Yomiji, Who Bars the Way + Hope Of Ghirapur + Phyrexian Altar97 decks