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Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · {5}{G}{G}{G} · Green commander
Trample
When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
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What Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant 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 · etbWhen Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
- Keyword · trampletrample
What a Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant deck needs
Plays as ETB mass cheat (big creatures). What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- big creatures held in hand (they all enter free)
- card draw to hold more creatures
- blink and recursion for Ghalta
The Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
- 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 7× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
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.
Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
- The Great Henge9 mana
- Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger12 mana
- Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
- Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
- Metalwork Colossus11 mana
- The Skullspore Nexus8 mana
- Diamond Weapon9 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Meandering Towershell5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
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
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
- Wood Elves3 mana
- Badgermole Cub2 mana
- Elvish Visionary2 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
Combos with Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant + Cloudstone Curio + Spark Double41 decks
- Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant + Sakashima Of A Thousand Faces + Cloudstone Curio39 decks
- Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant + Cloudstone Curio + Mirror Box + Mirror Image2 decks
- Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant + Cloudstone Curio + Mirror Box + Glasspool Mimic1 decks
- Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant + Cloudstone Curio + Mirror Gallery + Mirror Image
- Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant + Cloudstone Curio + Mirror Box + Clone