RakdosLegendary Creature — Human ArtificerMishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
Mana value5Rank#8,833
The Commander
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with artifacts, then turn your graveyard into a recursion engine—use Mishra's unearth to repeatedly fling cheap artifact creatures and value pieces for one-shot attacks and ETB triggers. The Ward on all your permanents (sacrifice a permanent) protects your key pieces while feeding sacrifice synergies, and the deck grinds advantage until you bury the table in artifact aggression or assemble an artifact-fueled combo.
Strengths
- Built-in graveyard recursion makes every dead artifact a reusable threat and ETB engine
- Ward—Sacrifice a permanent makes targeted removal expensive and turns sacrifice into a resource, not a downside
- Naturally synergizes with artifact tokens, treasures, and sacrifice payoffs all at once
- Aristocrats and artifact-matters cards both fit, giving deep card-pool flexibility
Weaknesses
- Board wipes hit your token-heavy battlefield hard, and unearth only buys one turn back
- Unearth is sorcery-speed and color-intensive (
each), so it taxes your mana - Graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Bojuka Bog) shuts off the commander's whole engine
- No card advantage in the command zone itself—needs draw support to refuel
- Ward only triggers on opponents' targeting, doing nothing against sweepers or edicts
Key Cards
- Myr Retriever — Loops with other artifacts and unearth to rebuy your best pieces every turn.
- Junk Diver — Another artifact-returning body that chains with unearth for infinite recursion potential.
- Goblin Engineer — Tutors artifacts straight into the graveyard where Mishra can unearth them immediately.
- Disciple of the Vault — Turns your sacrificed and exiled artifacts into a direct damage win condition.
- Marionette Master — Converts the constant flow of dying and exiled artifacts into lethal life loss.
- Goblin Bombardment — A free sac outlet that lets you fling unearthed creatures before they exile and triggers Ward synergies.
- Phyrexian Altar — Provides repeatable sacrifice and mana to fuel unearth chains and Ward costs.
- Krark-Clan Ironworks — Generates explosive mana from artifacts to power out multiple unearths in a turn.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and artifact accelerants—Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Mox Opal, and Sol Ring—to outpace the unearth tax, then tighten the combo package with Myr Retriever + Junk Diver + sac outlet + Disciple of the Vault for compact infinite kills. Lean into tutors (Goblin Engineer, Gamble, Inventors' Fair) and protect the engine with Pithing Needle-proof redundancy plus graveyard insurance to dodge Rest in Peace effects.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Disciple of the Vault or Marionette Master draining the table as artifacts die and exile
- ▸Infinite artifact loops (Myr Retriever/Junk Diver + sac outlet + Disciple) for an instant kill
- ▸Repeated unearthed beaters and artifact tokens swinging for incremental aggro damage
- ▸Krark-Clan Ironworks/Phyrexian Altar combos generating mana to deck or burn out opponents
Archetypes
- Artifacts — Every artifact in your yard becomes castable again, rewarding a dense artifact shell.
- Aristocrats — Ward's sacrifice cost and unearth's exile fuel death-trigger payoffs like Disciple of the Vault.
- Reanimator — Mishra is a graveyard engine, recurring artifacts for value and combo loops.
- Combo — Self-returning artifacts plus a sac outlet and free-cost engine assemble infinite loops.
Combos
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa + Void Maw + Myr Battlesphere + Phyrexian Altar
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa + Void Maw + Diamond Lion
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa + Void Maw + Composite Golem
→ Infinite blue mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BR), by popularity.
