NayaLegendary Creature — Cat AdvisorPhabine, Boss's Confidant
Mana value6Rank#10,011
The Commander
Creature tokens you control have haste.
Parley — At the beginning of combat on your turn, each player reveals the top card of their library. For each land card revealed this way, you create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. Then creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn for each nonland card revealed this way. Then each player draws a card.
Guide
Gameplan
Phabine turns every combat into a value engine: at the start of combat you trigger Parley, making Citizen tokens off revealed lands and pumping your whole board off revealed nonlands, then everyone draws. You flood the board with hasty tokens and swing wide with an ever-growing anthem, snowballing the game until an alpha strike or a payoff finishes the table. The catch is you're filling everyone's hand and board, so you must close fast.
Strengths
- Reliable token generation plus a built-in team-wide pump every single combat
- Granting all your tokens haste turns mass token-makers into immediate damage
- Card advantage for you every turn keeps gas flowing into the late game
- Naya colors access the best anthems, token doublers, and go-wide payoffs
Weaknesses
- Parley draws cards for EVERY opponent, accelerating their game plans too
- Six mana and no immediate impact makes Phabine a slow, removal-prone engine
- Vulnerable to board wipes that erase your token army in one card
- Symmetric draw can hand opponents answers, ramp, or combo pieces
Key Cards
- Cathars' Crusade — Every token Phabine makes triggers it, stacking permanent counters across your whole board.
- Craterhoof Behemoth — With hasty tokens already attacking, it converts a wide board into a one-shot kill.
- Anointed Procession — Doubles the Citizens from Parley and every other token maker, snowballing your army.
- Impact Tremors — Punishes opponents for the symmetric draw by pinging them as your hasty tokens enter.
- Smothering Tithe — Turns the extra cards everyone draws into a flood of Treasure for explosive turns.
- Beastmaster Ascension — With a wide token board it quickly online, granting +5/+5 for a lethal swing.
Upgrade Path
Add token doublers (Anointed Procession, Parallel Lives) and explosive finishers (Craterhoof Behemoth, Triumph of the Hordes) so a single big combat ends the game before symmetric draw helps opponents. Lower your curve and add ramp like Smothering Tithe and Esika's Chariot to deploy Phabine and a board faster, and include protection such as Heroic Intervention against the wipes that punish go-wide. Punisher pieces like Impact Tremors and Authority of the Consuls turn the shared card draw and your token flood into inevitable damage.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Alpha strike with a hasty token swarm boosted by Parley pumps and an overrun effect
- ▸Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede for a one-turn kill
- ▸Incremental aristocrat/ETB pings (Impact Tremors, Purphoros) from constant token flow
- ▸Anthem-fueled wide assault that grinds opponents down over a few combats
Archetypes
- Tokens / Go-Wide — Parley pumps out Citizens and anthems your team every combat, rewarding flooding the board.
- Aristocrats — Hasty tokens and constant draw feed sacrifice engines and death-trigger payoffs.
- Combat / Voltron-Lite — The cumulative +1/+1 buffs make trample finishers and overrun effects lethal fast.
- Group Hug-Aggro — Symmetric draw fuels a friendly facade while you race to kill before opponents capitalize.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GRW), by popularity.
