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Borborygmos

Borborygmos

Legendary Creature — Cyclops · {3}{R}{R}{G}{G} · Green/Red commander

Trample Whenever Borborygmos deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
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What Borborygmos actually does

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

What a Borborygmos deck needs

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

The Borborygmos deck plan

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

Best cards for Borborygmos

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.

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  5. Duskshell Crawler2 mana
  6. Sphere Grid2 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. Gruul War Chant4 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. Crash Through1 mana
  5. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  8. Duskshell Crawler2 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  5. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  6. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  7. The Earth Crystal4 mana
  8. High Score3 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Beast Within3 mana
  3. Nature's Claim1 mana
  4. Crush1 mana
  5. Emerald Charm1 mana
  6. Naturalize2 mana
  7. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  8. Natural State1 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. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Needle Storm3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  5. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  6. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Sticky Fingers1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  3. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  4. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Asceticism5 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Gruul Signet2 mana
  3. Incubation Druid2 mana
  4. Palladium Myr3 mana
  5. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  6. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Llanowar Tribe3 mana

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