Arnim Zola wants a deck that makes an army of small creatures and attacks with all of them. It also works in a deck built around Artifact Creatures, Scientists or Villains.
Mana cost
Black ()
Power / toughness2 / 3
RarityUncommon
, : Create a tapped 2/1 black Villain creature token with menace. Activate only if there are two or more creature cards in your graveyard. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Picked for what they do in Arnim Zola's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Arnim Zola's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Open the full glossary
Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryBPlayers write colors as letters: B for black.TokensToken decks fill the battlefield with small creatures made by their cards, then attack with all of them or make them all bigger at once. A token is a creature (or other object) that a card creates, not a card from your deck.Open the Tokens pageToken EngineMakes tokens again and again rather than once. A token is a creature or other permanent created by a card, with no card of its own. Something that makes one token gives you a body; something that makes them every turn gives you a board you can keep rebuilding after it is cleared. Grave Titan, Bitterblossom, OphiomancerOpen the Token Engine pageToken MakerCreates one or more tokens. Different cards make very different ones: creatures Grave Titan, Treasures Smothering Tithe, Clues Tireless Tracker or Food Gilded Goose. This is one of our largest tags, so pair it with an archetype or theme when you are hunting a specific kind.Open the Token Maker pageVillainsVillains are mostly black creatures, including the supervillains of Magic's Marvel cards.Open the Villains pageMana SinkGives you somewhere useful to spend spare mana, usually through an ability you can activate again and again. Rogue's Passage, Mind StoneOpen the Mana Sink page
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: Create a tapped 2/1 black Villain creature token with menace. Activate only if there are two or more creature cards in your graveyard. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
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