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Denzilore Fatehold
Legendary Creature — Elder Sphinx · {1}{W}{U}{U} · Blue/White commander
What Denzilore Fatehold 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 · otherWhenever you scry or surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- Keyword · flashflash
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Denzilore Fatehold deck needs
Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- scry and surveil effects — cantrips, scry and surveil lands (each one triggers it)
- creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
The Denzilore Fatehold deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× 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
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Denzilore Fatehold
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 +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Vexing Radgull2 mana
- Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
- Generous Pup2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Denzilore Fatehold
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Denzilore Fatehold is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Denzilore Fatehold + Proctor Of Potential + Invisible Woman, Sue Storm78 decks
- Denzilore Fatehold + Proctor Of Potential + Basking Broodscale2 decks
- Denzilore Fatehold + Proctor Of Potential + Herd Baloth1 decks
- Denzilore Fatehold + Scurry Oak + Golbez, Crystal Collector + Sword Of The Meek + Extruder
- Denzilore Fatehold + Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor + Samut, Tyrant Smasher + Herd Baloth
- Denzilore Fatehold + Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor + Samut, Tyrant Smasher + Scurry Oak
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