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Bortuk Bonerattle

Bortuk Bonerattle

Legendary Creature — Troll Shaman · {4}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Domain — When Bortuk Bonerattle enters, if you cast it, choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card to the battlefield if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
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What Bortuk Bonerattle actually does

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What a Bortuk Bonerattle deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Bortuk Bonerattle

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.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Nishoba Brawler2 mana
  2. Sunbathing Rootwalla2 mana
  3. Llanowar Greenwidow3 mana
  4. Matca Rioters3 mana
  5. Scion of Draco12 mana
  6. Magnigoth Treefolk5 mana
  7. Territorial Maro5 mana
  8. Briar Hydra6 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  4. Golgari Rot Farm0 mana
  5. Jungle Hollow0 mana
  6. Lotus Field0 mana
  7. Mortuary Mire0 mana
  8. Riveteers Overlook0 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  4. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  5. Mindcrank2 mana
  6. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  7. Codex Shredder1 mana
  8. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Fatal Push1 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Nature's Claim1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  7. Imperial Seal1 mana
  8. Insatiable Avarice1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Cryptothrall4 mana
  4. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Asceticism5 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

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