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General Kreat, the Boltbringer

General Kreat, the Boltbringer

Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier · {2}{R} · Red commander

Whenever one or more Goblins you control attack, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token that's tapped and attacking. Whenever another creature you control enters, General Kreat deals 1 damage to each opponent.
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What General Kreat, the Boltbringer actually does

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What a General Kreat, the Boltbringer deck needs

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

The General Kreat, the Boltbringer deck plan

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

Best cards for General Kreat, the Boltbringer

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.

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Goblin Welder1 mana
  2. Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skirk Prospector1 mana
  4. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  5. Dragonlord's Servant2 mana
  6. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  7. Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
  8. Grenzo, Havoc Raiser2 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  2. Dualcaster Mage3 mana
  3. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  4. Dire Fleet Daredevil2 mana
  5. Fear of Missing Out2 mana
  6. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  7. Goblin Matron3 mana
  8. Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak5 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Norin the Wary1 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Voyager Staff1 mana
  4. Golden Argosy4 mana
  5. Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
  6. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  2. Castle Embereth0 mana
  3. Great Train Heist1 mana
  4. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  5. Rising of the Day3 mana
  6. Purphoros, God of the Forge4 mana
  7. Kavaron, Memorial World0 mana
  8. Adaptive Automaton3 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Goblin Recruiter2 mana
  2. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  3. Goblin Matron3 mana
  4. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  5. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  6. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  7. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  8. Gamble1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Herald's Horn3 mana
  4. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Combos with General Kreat, the Boltbringer

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that General Kreat, the Boltbringer is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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