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Carth the Lion
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {2}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander
Whenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Planeswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.
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What Carth the Lion 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 · deathWhenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the
- AbilityPlaneswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.
What a Carth the Lion deck needs
Plays as superfriends. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- planeswalkers (every loyalty ability adds one more loyalty; a walker dying digs for another)
- protection for the walkers
The Carth the Lion deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 20× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 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
- 8× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Carth the Lion
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
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Diabolic Servitude4 mana
- Meandering Towershell5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
- Ashnod's Intervention1 mana
A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm1 mana
- Grist, the Hunger Tide3 mana
- Liliana of the Veil3 mana
- Tezzeret, Cruel Captain3 mana
- Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
- Wrenn and Realmbreaker3 mana
- Karn, the Great Creator4 mana
- Liliana of the Dark Realms4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
- Plaguecrafter3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Vicious Rivalry4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Carth the Lion
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Carth the Lion is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Carth the Lion + Teferi, Temporal Archmage + The Chain Veil9,139 decks
- Carth the Lion + Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Jace, Cunning Castaway391 decks
- Carth the Lion + Wrenn And Realmbreaker + Lotus Petal + The Chain Veil269 decks
- Carth the Lion + Wrenn And Realmbreaker + Lotus Petal + Oath Of Teferi205 decks
- Carth the Lion + Liliana Vess + Nexus Of Fate + Spark Double11 decks
- Carth the Lion + Karn, The Great Creator + Ugin's Nexus + Throne Of Geth3 decks
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