Plargg and Nassari

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Plargg and Nassari is a 5/4 that provides repeatable, upkeep-triggered card advantage by exiling cards from all libraries and letting you cast up to two nonland cards for free — but an opponent chooses which exiled card is off-limits, meaning they will always give you the worst option. This is a strong red card-advantage engine in spellslinger and midrange shells, particularly as a commander with free-cast synergy, but the opponent-chooses clause and the once-per-upkeep trigger make it too slow and telegraphed for aggro/burn. Storm is anti-synergistic because opponents can specifically deny you storm-relevant spells and the card doesn't proliferate your storm count predictably.

• The opponent picks the ONE card you CANNOT cast — not which card you get. You cast up to two from among all other exiled nonland cards, so with multiple opponents milling many cards, the pool can be surprisingly large.

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• Because all players exile simultaneously, in decks with heavy instant/sorcery density this functions as graveyard-agnostic 'impulse draw' for you while potentially fueling opponents' graveyards — be mindful in groups running reanimator.

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• As a red commander in mono-red, this is one of the few repeatable free-cast engines available, making it disproportionately valuable in that color identity despite the opponent-chooses clause.

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• EDHREC rank: #2,284