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Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion
Legendary Creature — Dog · {2}{W} · White commander
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
{6}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target legendary creature.
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What Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{6}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target legendary creature.
- Replacement effect · counter_doublerIf one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
What a Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion deck needs
Plays as counters engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- counter producers and proliferate (every counter placed is multiplied)
- creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
- mana rocks and dorks beyond the curve (its ability turns spare mana into value)
The Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 17× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 13× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- 11× 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 Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion
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
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Patrolling Peacemaker3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Mind Stone2 mana
- Thought Vessel2 mana
- Cryptic Trilobite0 mana
- Grim Monolith2 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Patrolling Peacemaker3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
- Throne of Geth2 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
- Long Road Home2 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