mtg azorius cards What is a must-have card for an commander deck? Elite Azorius Bird Deck -

Type-specific hate like Engineered Plague and Extinction punishes the whole creature base, and targeted removal on the key lord or payoff engine slows the snowball

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Permanents that are removal spells are going to give you some nice extra value, and thats certainly true here Weve already seen that descending is a key part of what Black wants to do in this format, and the Marionette helps you do it while being capable of trading with anything thanks to death touch The Gray Ogre statline is ugly, even with Menace, but this can grow without a ton of effort, and obviously the bigger it gets, the better Menace feels While you cant really call this type of an effect a 2-for-1, since your opponent can get the card back with relative ease, the kind of disruption this card gives you is pretty serious