edhseer Oracle-level deck reading

Hire a Crew

Instant

Produces: a Villain creature token being created, a Villain creature token entering the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Partners

26 cards can cause a Villain entering the battlefield.

  1. Yellowjacket, Heartless Marauder — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Yellowjacket, Heartless Marauder gives +1/+0
  2. Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel triggers
  3. Flying Octobot — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Flying Octobot puts counters on a permanent

2,615 cards can cause a creature token being created.

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Hire a Crew makes a Villain token, Staff of the Storyteller puts counters on a permanent

2,615 cards can cause a creature token entering the battlefield.

  1. Anointer Priest — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Anointer Priest gains you 1 life
  2. Securitron Squadron — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Securitron Squadron puts counters on a permanent
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Nesting Dovehawk puts counters on a permanent

3,442 cards can cause a creature entering the battlefield.

  1. Kindred Discovery — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Kindred Discovery draws you 1 card
  2. Bogwater Lumaret — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Bogwater Lumaret gains you 1 life
  3. Park Bleater — When a Villain enters thanks to Hire a Crew, Park Bleater puts a counter on a permanent

3,521 cards can cause a token being created.

  1. Diregraf Horde — When Hire a Crew makes a Villain token, Diregraf Horde hits a graveyard

EDH Seer reads the oracle text of every card in a Commander decklist and reports which pairs actually work together, with the reason printed next to each one.

34,433
cards in the corpus, 21,317 of them read in full
~495
synergy edges in an average Commander deck
0
model calls when you analyse a deck

What an edge is, and what it is not

Krenko, Mob Boss produces
enters · creature · token
Impact Tremors cares about

Edge. When a creature enters thanks to Krenko, Mob Boss, Impact Tremors deals 1 damage.

Farseek produces
enters · land
Enduring Courage cares about

No edge. It wants a creature entering, and a fetched land is not one.

What it refuses to claim

Ramp, removal and card draw are roles, not synergies — they make a deck work without pairing with anything, so they are counted as slots rather than drawn as edges. A card that refers to itself ("this creature", "this spell") is read as itself and not as a class. Where the rules cannot say something, the report says nothing: a missing claim is better than a confident wrong one.

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