B/UEDHREC #18716

The Master, Formed Anew

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Rogue

Body Thief — When you cast this spell, you may exile a creature you control and put a takeover counter on it. You may have The Master enter as a copy of a creature card in exile with a takeover counter on it.

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“Blue-Black shapeshifter that copies exiled creatures for flexible, adaptable threats.”

PlaystyleMidrange

DifficultyIntermediate

Wins viaCombat damage, Commander damage

ThemesBlink, Graveyard, Tokens

Strategy

How this commander wants to play

The Master, Formed Anew is a shapeshifter commander that lets you steal the best stats and abilities from creatures you've exiled. The core gameplan is to build up a library of exiled creatures—ideally ones with powerful ETB effects or evasion—then use The Master to become a copy of whichever creature suits your current situation. This gives you flexibility: go wide with token generators, go tall with a scary flyer, or pivot to whatever your table needs.

You'll want lots of ways to put creatures into exile before casting The Master: flicker effects like Ephemerate, mill spells that hit your own deck, or just creatures with enters-the-battlefield effects that also self-mill. Once The Master is online, you're generating card advantage by getting multiple uses out of exiled creatures' abilities. Your wins come from swinging with a copied threat or leveraging the creature's abilities to dominate the board.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.

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Budget Build

Same gameplan, less money

Skip expensive tutors like Mystical Tutor; use cheaper mill effects like Stitcher's Supplier and Self-Exile instead, and lean on modal creatures that work in multiple copied forms.