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Zethi, Arcane Blademaster
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {1}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander
Multikicker {W/U}
When Zethi, Arcane Blademaster enters, exile up to X target instant cards from your graveyard, where X is the number of times Zethi was kicked. Put a kick counter on each of them.
Whenever Zethi attacks, copy each exiled card you own with a kick counter on it. You may cast the copies.
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What Zethi, Arcane Blademaster 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 · otherWhen Zethi, Arcane Blademaster enters, exile up to X target instant cards from your graveyard, where X is the number of times Zethi was kicked. Put a kick counter on each of them.
- Triggered ability · attackWhenever Zethi attacks, copy each exiled card you own with a kick counter on it. You may cast the copies.
- Keyword · multikickermultikicker
What a Zethi, Arcane Blademaster deck needs
Plays as instants. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- instants to bank with kick counters (each attack casts copies of them)
- mana to multikick it
The Zethi, Arcane Blademaster deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 7× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 4× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 8× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 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
Best cards for Zethi, Arcane Blademaster
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 haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Haunted Cloak3 mana
- Sword of Vengeance3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Soulherder3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Helpful Hunter2 mana
- Loyal Warhound2 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Archetype of Imagination6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- On Wings of Gold4 mana
- Infiltrator's Magemark3 mana
- Student of Elements // Tobita, Master of Winds2 mana
- Midnight Pathlighter4 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Fraying Sanity3 mana
- Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
- Sequestered Stash0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Transmute Artifact2 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Combos with Zethi, Arcane Blademaster
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Zethi, Arcane Blademaster is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster + Teferi's Protection2,114 decks
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster + Nexus Of Fate + Mystical Tutor890 decks
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster + Lithoform Engine + Dramatic Reversal142 decks
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster + Beacon Of Tomorrows + Mystical Tutor82 decks
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster + Savage Beating65 decks
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster + Walk The Aeons + Faith's Reward34 decks
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