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Esix, Fractal Bloom
Legendary Creature — Fractal · {4}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
Flying
The first time you would create one or more tokens during each of your turns, you may instead choose a creature other than Esix and create that many tokens that are copies of that creature.
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What Esix, Fractal Bloom actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · otherThe first time you would create one or more tokens during each of your turns, you may instead choose a creature other than Esix and create that many tokens that are copies of that creature.
- Keyword · flyingflying
What an Esix, Fractal Bloom deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- token makers (the first creation each turn copies your best creature)
- a creature worth copying
The Esix, Fractal Bloom deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 8× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Esix, Fractal Bloom
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.
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Rampant Frogantua3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Finale of Devastation2 mana
- Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
- Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
- Sylvan Anthem2 mana
- Weaver of Harmony2 mana
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 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
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Simic Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Esix, Fractal Bloom
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Esix, Fractal Bloom is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Esix, Fractal Bloom + Biovisionary + Avenger Of Zendikar3,697 decks
- Esix, Fractal Bloom + Biovisionary + Hornet Queen3,381 decks
- Esix, Fractal Bloom + Biovisionary + Deep Forest Hermit1,701 decks
- Esix, Fractal Bloom + Biovisionary + Myr Battlesphere1,579 decks
- Esix, Fractal Bloom + Biovisionary + Master Of Waves1,191 decks
- Esix, Fractal Bloom + Timestream Navigator + Koma, Cosmos Serpent232 decks