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Bumi, King of Three Trials

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally · {5}{G} · Green commander

When Bumi enters, choose up to X, where X is the number of Lesson cards in your graveyard — • Put three +1/+1 counters on Bumi. • Target player scries 3. • Earthbend 3. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)

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What Bumi, King of Three Trials 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 · etbWhen Bumi enters, choose up to X, where X is the number of Lesson cards in your graveyard —

What a Bumi, King of Three Trials deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)

The Bumi, King of Three Trials deck plan

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

• 10× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 11× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 10× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Bumi, King of Three Trials

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.

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