mtg cards that hurt the controller Commander Theory — Nin, Pain Artist What creatures deal damage to

If youre able to leave 6 Mana available, spending 4 for a blocker, and 2 to draw a cards from the subsequent life gain is a good way to stall the game as you dig into your deck for answers

This can be used to either bring back a powerful creature you put there earlier to reanimate, or to bring back a card with cycling that has a great ability

Scion of Calamity provides both by slinging a 5/5 dino at each of your opponents that threatens to obliterate their best artifacts or enchantments

So Im going with Scrappy Survivors

The only reason why Karn is appearing on the list at all is because of how strong it threatens to be in the Commander format