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Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Permanents you control have "Ward—Sacrifice a permanent." Each artifact card in your graveyard has unearth {1}{B}{R}. ({1}{B}{R}: Return the card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
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“Recursive artifact swarm with ward protection and graveyard-to-battlefield recursion.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Sacrifice, Artifacts, Graveyard
Strategy
Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa is a graveyard-focused commander that turns your artifacts into repeatable threats. The ward effect makes your permanents hard to remove, forcing opponents to sacrifice their own stuff to target you—which is usually a bad trade. Your real engine is the unearth ability on artifact cards in your graveyard, letting you flash back creatures and artifacts over and over for {1}{B}{R}. This means you're filling your graveyard intentionally, then converting it into a stream of hasty threats that pressure opponents while staying resilient.
Your gameplan revolves around self-mill and artifact synergies. You want cheap artifact creatures and payoff cards that trigger when artifacts enter or leave the battlefield. Sacrifice outlets let you convert your recurring threats into value—drawing cards, damaging opponents, or tutoring. The ward effect buys you time while you rebuild from the graveyard, and since you're recurring permanents, you can milk multiple triggers from a single card. You win through combat damage and incremental value, snowballing your tempo advantage until opponents can't keep up.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey artifact lords like Kraz-Thun; use cheaper payoffs like Mayhem Devil, Viscera Seer, and Goblin Welder instead.
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