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Ganax, Astral Hunter
Legendary Creature — Dragon · {4}{R} · Red commander
Flying
Whenever Ganax or another Dragon you control enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
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What Ganax, Astral Hunter 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 · etbWhenever Ganax or another Dragon you control enters, create a Treasure token.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · choose a backgroundchoose a background
- Keyword · treasuretreasure
What a Ganax, Astral Hunter deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
Best cards for Ganax, Astral Hunter
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
- Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
- Academy Manufactor3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw2 mana
- Magda, the Hoardmaster2 mana
- Reckless Lackey1 mana
- Xorn3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Shivan Devastator1 mana
- Slumbering Dragon1 mana
- Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw2 mana
- Reckless Barbarian2 mana
- Atsushi, the Blazing Sky4 mana
- Leyline Tyrant4 mana
- Thunderbreak Regent4 mana
- Vengeful Ancestor4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
- Lotus Field0 mana
- Riveteers Overlook0 mana
- Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
- Impact Tremors2 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Adventurer's Inn0 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Nesting Grounds0 mana
- Patchwork Banner3 mana
- Castle Embereth0 mana
- Fire Nation Palace0 mana
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Dragon Tempest2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Breaking Point3 mana
- Crack the Earth1 mana
- Kozilek's Return3 mana
- Akki Blizzard-Herder2 mana
- Devastating Dreams2 mana
- Tectonic Break2 mana
- Tremble2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Goblin Recruiter2 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Dragon's Approach3 mana
- Flamekin Harbinger1 mana
- Goblin Matron3 mana
- Sarkhan's Triumph3 mana
- Dwarven Recruiter3 mana
- Myr Kinsmith4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Pip-Boy 30001 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
- Fear of Missing Out2 mana
- Key to the City2 mana