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Aerith, Last Ancient
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric Druid · {2}{G}{W} · Green/White commander
What Aerith, Last Ancient 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If you gained 7 or more life this turn, return that card to the battlefie
- Keyword · lifelinklifelink
What an Aerith, Last Ancient deck needs
Plays as lifegain. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- repeatable lifegain — lifelink, gain-life triggers and Food (every life gained is its trigger)
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
The Aerith, Last Ancient deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 29× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Aerith, Last Ancient
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.
Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Zuran Orb0 mana
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Gilded Goose1 mana
- Haywire Mite1 mana
- Serra Ascendant1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Grapple with the Past2 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Eladamri's Call2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Selesnya Signet2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
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