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Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · {10}{G}{G} · Green commander
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
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What Ghalta, Primal Hunger 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 Ghalta, Primal Hunger deck needs
Plays as big creatures (stompy). What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- high-power creatures early (they make Ghalta cheap)
- trample, evasion and haste for the fatties
- protection against sweepers
The Ghalta, Primal Hunger deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 28× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Ghalta, Primal Hunger
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.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
- Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
Combos with Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ghalta, Primal Hunger is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger + Brinelin, The Moon Kraken + Gwenna, Eyes Of Gaea + Primeval Protector540 decks
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger + Brinelin, The Moon Kraken + Gwenna, Eyes Of Gaea + Thrasta, Tempest's Roar532 decks
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger + Defiler Of Vigor + Food Chain366 decks
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger + Omnath, Locus Of Mana + Food Chain257 decks
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger + Vaultborn Tyrant + Phyrexian Altar + Defiler Of Vigor13 decks
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger + Brinelin, The Moon Kraken + Gwenna, Eyes Of Gaea + Earthquake Dragon6 decks