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Atla Palani, Nest Tender

Atla Palani, Nest Tender

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · {1}{R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander

{2}, {T}: Create a 0/1 green Egg creature token with defender. Whenever an Egg you control dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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What Atla Palani, Nest Tender 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 Atla Palani, Nest Tender deck needs

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

The Atla Palani, Nest Tender deck plan

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

Best cards for Atla Palani, Nest Tender

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 haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  7. Fervor3 mana
  8. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  2. Aurelia, the Warleader6 mana
  3. Bear Umbra4 mana
  4. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  5. Thornbite Staff2 mana
  6. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  7. Genji Glove5 mana
  8. Copperhorn Scout1 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Mysterious Egg1 mana
  2. Dinosaur Egg2 mana
  3. Smoldering Egg // Ashmouth Dragon2 mana
  4. Dragon Egg3 mana
  5. Roc Egg3 mana
  6. The Dragon-Kami Reborn // Dragon-Kami's Egg3 mana
  7. Rukh Egg4 mana
  8. Summoner's Egg4 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Goblin Bombardment2 mana
  3. Spawning Pit2 mana
  4. Ashnod's Altar3 mana
  5. Betrothed of Fire2 mana
  6. Phyrexian Altar3 mana
  7. Fanatical Devotion3 mana
  8. Martyr's Cause3 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  5. Gideon's Memorial2 mana
  6. Mite Overseer4 mana
  7. Phantom General4 mana
  8. Patchwork Banner3 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Herald's Horn3 mana
  7. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  8. Archivist of Oghma2 mana

Combos with Atla Palani, Nest Tender

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Atla Palani, Nest Tender is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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