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Akuta, Born of Ash

Legendary Creature — Spirit · {2}{B}{B} · Black commander

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, you may sacrifice a Swamp. If you do, return Akuta from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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What Akuta, Born of Ash 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 · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, you may sacrifice a Swamp. If you do, return Akuta from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Keyword · hastehaste

What an Akuta, Born of Ash deck needs

Plays as graveyard. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)

The Akuta, Born of Ash deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 12× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Akuta, Born of Ash

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.

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