Doctor Doom wants a deck that wins on the spot by putting a few key cards together. It also works in a deck built around Humans, Sorcerers or Villains.
Mana cost
Black ()
Power / toughness4 / 4
RarityMythic
Lifelink
: You draw a card and lose 1 life. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game. (You win even if you have 0 life or didn't draw a card.)
Picked for what they do in Doctor Doom's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Doctor Doom'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.ComboCombo decks hunt for a few specific cards that win the game on the spot once they are all together. Many repeat an action over and over without end, which players call an infinite combo; the rest of the deck searches for the pieces and protects them.Open the Combo pageAlt-Win ConditionWins the game outright when its condition is met, instead of reducing opponents to zero life. It is worth building more than one way to win, because a deck resting on a single alternate win condition folds to one well-timed answer. Thassa's Oracle, Laboratory ManiacOpen the Alt-Win Condition pageLife GainGains you life, once or over and over. Soul Warden, The Great Henge. In Commander life is something to spend, not just a cushion, and many of these cards also set off others that reward gaining life.Open the Life Gain pageDrawDraws you extra cards. More cards means more choices every turn, and in a 100-card deck it is the main way to find the pieces you need. Rhystic Study, SkullclampOpen the Draw page
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: You draw a card and lose 1 life. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game. (You win even if you have 0 life or didn't draw a card.)
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