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Geth, Thane of Contracts

Geth, Thane of Contracts

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie · {1}{B}{B} · Black commander

Other creatures you control get -1/-1. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else." Activate only as a sorcery.
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What Geth, Thane of Contracts 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 Geth, Thane of Contracts deck needs

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

The Geth, Thane of Contracts deck plan

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

Best cards for Geth, Thane of Contracts

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. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  2. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  3. Genji Glove5 mana
  4. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  5. Sword of the Paruns4 mana
  6. Deserted Temple0 mana
  7. Leyline Dowser2 mana
  8. Pip-Boy 30001 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  4. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  5. Tomb Fortress0 mana
  6. Millikin2 mana
  7. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  8. Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana

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

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Tainted Pact2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Combos with Geth, Thane of Contracts

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Geth, Thane of Contracts is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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