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Altanak, the Thrice-Called

Altanak, the Thrice-Called

Legendary Creature — Insect Beast · {5}{G}{G} · Green commander

Trample Whenever Altanak becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, draw a card. {1}{G}, Discard this card: Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
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What Altanak, the Thrice-Called actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What an Altanak, the Thrice-Called deck needs

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

The Altanak, the Thrice-Called deck plan

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

Best cards for Altanak, the Thrice-Called

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.

Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Explore2 mana
  3. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
  4. Exploration Broodship1 mana
  5. Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
  6. Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
  7. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  8. Druid Class2 mana

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  2. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  3. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  4. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  2. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  3. Six3 mana
  4. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
  5. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  6. Grapple with the Past2 mana
  7. Millikin2 mana
  8. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Nature's Claim1 mana
  3. Emerald Charm1 mana
  4. Naturalize2 mana
  5. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  6. Natural State1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Archdruid's Charm3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Summoner's Pact0 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Needle Storm3 mana
  3. Hurricane1 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Season of Gathering6 mana
  6. Gale Force5 mana
  7. Corrosive Gale1 mana
  8. Tropical Storm1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  4. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Elemental Bond3 mana
  8. Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Incubation Druid2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  6. Heritage Druid1 mana
  7. Llanowar Tribe3 mana
  8. Chrome Mox0 mana

Combos with Altanak, the Thrice-Called

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Altanak, the Thrice-Called is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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