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Aatchik, Emerald Radian
Legendary Creature — Insect Druid · {3}{B}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander
When Aatchik enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard.
Whenever another Insect you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Aatchik. Each opponent loses 1 life.
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What Aatchik, Emerald Radian actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhen Aatchik enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard.
- Triggered ability · deathWhenever another Insect you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Aatchik. Each opponent loses 1 life.
What an Aatchik, Emerald Radian deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
Best cards for Aatchik, Emerald Radian
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Deathrite Shaman1 mana
- Leechridden Swamp0 mana
- Marionette Apprentice2 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
- Mirkwood Bats4 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
- Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Haywire Mite1 mana
- Springheart Nantuko2 mana
- Scute Swarm3 mana
- Duskshell Crawler2 mana
- Bilious Skulldweller1 mana
- Caustic Caterpillar1 mana
- Gene Pollinator1 mana
- Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Bojuka Bog0 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
- Golgari Rot Farm0 mana
- Jungle Hollow0 mana
- Lotus Field0 mana
- Mortuary Mire0 mana
- Riveteers Overlook0 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Mosswort Bridge0 mana
- Nesting Grounds0 mana
- Heroic Intervention2 mana
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Sylvan Safekeeper1 mana
- Tamiyo's Safekeeping1 mana
- Tyvar's Stand1 mana
- Veil of Summer1 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Phyrexian Tower0 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Grim Backwoods0 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
- Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
- Scavenger's Talent1 mana
- Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
- Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Mindcrank2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Codex Shredder1 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
- Cankerbloom2 mana
- Thirsting Roots1 mana
- Evolution Sage3 mana
- Mossborn Hydra3 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana