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Coram, the Undertaker

Coram, the Undertaker

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {1}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander

Coram gets +X/+0, where X is the greatest power among creature cards in all graveyards. Whenever Coram attacks, each player mills a card. During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a spell from among cards in graveyards that were put there from libraries this turn.
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What Coram, the Undertaker 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 Coram, the Undertaker deck needs

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

The Coram, the Undertaker deck plan

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

Best cards for Coram, the Undertaker

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

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
  4. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  8. Fervor3 mana

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

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  3. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  4. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  5. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  6. Gruul War Chant4 mana
  7. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  8. Sonorous Howlbonder3 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. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  5. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  6. Six3 mana
  7. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  6. Terminate2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Beast Within3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  8. Nature's Rhythm2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Asceticism5 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  3. Golgari Signet2 mana
  4. Gruul Signet2 mana
  5. Incubation Druid2 mana
  6. Palladium Myr3 mana
  7. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  8. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana

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