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Berta, Wise Extrapolator
Legendary Creature — Frog Druid · {2}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
Increment (Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana you spent is greater than this creature's power or toughness, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Berta, add one mana of any color.
{X}, {T}: Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and put X +1/+1 counters on it.
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What Berta, Wise Extrapolator 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 · countersWhenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Berta, add one mana of any color.
- Activated ability{X}, {T}: Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and put X +1/+1 counters on it.
- Keyword · incrementincrement
What a Berta, Wise Extrapolator deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
Best cards for Berta, Wise Extrapolator
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
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Runadi, Behemoth Caller3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Super State7 mana
- Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Bear Umbra4 mana
- Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
- Wilderness Reclamation4 mana
- Amulet of Vigor1 mana
- Freed from the Real3 mana
- Nature's Will4 mana
- Pemmin's Aura3 mana
- Retreat to Coralhelm3 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Ambitious Augmenter1 mana
- Cuboid Colony2 mana
- Tester of the Tangential2 mana
- Pensive Professor3 mana
- Topiary Lecturer3 mana
- Textbook Tabulator3 mana
- Berta, Wise Extrapolator4 mana
- Hungry Graffalon4 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Mosswort Bridge0 mana
- Nesting Grounds0 mana
- Heroic Intervention2 mana
- Sylvan Safekeeper1 mana
- Tamiyo's Safekeeping1 mana
- Tyvar's Stand1 mana
- Veil of Summer1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 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
- Ripples of Potential2 mana
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Thirsting Roots1 mana
- Evolution Sage3 mana
- Mossborn Hydra3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Chasm Skulker3 mana
- Hornet Nest3 mana
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Broodhatch Nantuko2 mana
- Tervigon2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Suspend1 mana
- Snap2 mana
- Into the Flood Maw1 mana
- Planar Incision2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Displacement Wave2 mana
- Simplify1 mana
- Filter Out3 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Whirlwind4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- Counterspell2 mana
- Three Steps Ahead1 mana
- Long River's Pull2 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Abjure1 mana
- Archmage's Charm3 mana
- Cancel3 mana