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Zareth San, the Trickster

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Rogue · {3}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Flash {2}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacking Rogue you control to its owner's hand: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Whenever Zareth San deals combat damage to a player, you may put target permanent card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

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What Zareth San, the Trickster 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{2}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacking Rogue you control to its owner's hand: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Zareth San deals combat damage to a player, you may put target permanent card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
• Keyword · flashflash

What a Zareth San, the Trickster deck needs

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

• rogue creatures (its text counts them)
• evasion and protection for the commander (the trigger needs its combat damage to connect)

The Zareth San, the Trickster deck plan

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

• 10× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 29× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 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 Zareth San, the Trickster

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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