The Commander
When Hama enters, target opponent mills three cards. Exile up to one noncreature, nonland card from that player's graveyard. For as long as you control Hama, you may cast the exiled card during your turn by waterbending 
rather than paying its mana cost, where X is its mana value. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for 
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Guide
Gameplan
Mill a chosen opponent and steal the best noncreature, nonland card from their yard, then recast it by tapping your board (artifacts and creatures) to cover its 'waterbend' cost. You play a midrange Dimir control-and-theft game, generating bodies and rocks to fuel free casts of bombs you took from opponents, snowballing card and mana advantage until you bury the table.
Strengths
- Repeatable, mana-cheating theft of opponents' best instants, sorceries, planeswalkers, and artifacts every time Hama re-enters
- Turns wide boards and mana rocks into a flexible 'waterbend' engine, sidestepping the actual mana cost of stolen spells
- Color identity gives premium card advantage, counterspells, removal, and recursion
- Mill plus exile doubles as graveyard hate and can fuel your own self-mill payoffs
Weaknesses
- Heavily commander-dependent; if Hama is removed you lose access to the exiled card
- Theft is conditional on what you mill, so payoffs can be inconsistent against low-graveyard decks
- Needs a developed board of creatures/artifacts to pay waterbend costs for expensive spells
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate and to wide board wipes that strip your tap fodder
Key Cards
- Sol Ring — Untaps for fast rocks and provides a body-free artifact to tap toward waterbend costs.
- Sakura-Tribe Elder — Cheap creatures double as ramp and as fuel to pay X for stolen spells.
- Glasspool Mimic — Cloning Hama or another value piece multiplies your theft and tap-fodder triggers.
- Mind Stone — Mana rock that taps to waterbend and cantrips when no longer needed.
- Bloodchief Ascension — Amplifies your milling so you reliably find premium cards to exile and steal.
- Whir of Invention — Floods the board with artifacts to enable big waterbend casts and toolbox setups.
- Deadeye Navigator — Blinking Hama re-triggers the mill-and-exile to repeatedly steal new spells.
Upgrade Path
Add more flicker (Deadeye Navigator, Ghostly Flicker, Conjurer's Closet) to re-trigger the steal, and cheap mana rocks plus token makers to consistently pay waterbend costs. Lean into mill amplifiers (Bruvac the Grandiloquent, Fraying Sanity) and graveyard-filling effects so you reliably hit premium spells. Round out with Dimir interaction and Hama protection (Lightning Greaves, counterspells) to keep the engine online.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Snowballing into stolen bomb spells and planeswalkers that overwhelm the table
- ▸Milling opponents out with stacked mill engines
- ▸Casting a stolen game-ending instant/sorcery or wrath at no mana cost via waterbend
- ▸Grinding a control lock and finishing with an evasive creature or token swarm
Archetypes
- Control — Dimir counters and removal protect Hama while you grind value off opponents' graveyards.
- Mill — Hama's mill plus stax-style stealing lets you weaponize self- and opponent-mill payoffs.
- Artifacts/Tokens — Wide boards of rocks and bodies are the literal fuel for casting stolen spells for free.
- Blink — Flicker effects re-trigger the ETB to repeatedly mill and steal high-value noncreature cards.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BU), by popularity.
