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Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Legendary Creature — Frog Wizard Noble · {B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander

Deathtouch You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells with mana value 4 or greater from the top of your library. {T}: Surveil 2.
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What Glarb, Calamity's Augur actually does

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What a Glarb, Calamity's Augur deck needs

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

The Glarb, Calamity's Augur deck plan

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

Best cards for Glarb, Calamity's Augur

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Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  6. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
  7. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  8. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana

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

  1. Bear Umbra4 mana
  2. Freed from the Real3 mana
  3. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  4. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  5. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  6. Unstoppable Plan3 mana
  7. Genji Glove5 mana
  8. Copperhorn Scout1 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Reality Shift2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Defile1 mana
  7. Tragic Slip1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Neoform2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 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. Vicious Rivalry4 mana
  8. Endemic Plague4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Garruk's Uprising3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Asceticism5 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Dimir Signet2 mana
  3. Golgari Signet2 mana
  4. Incubation Druid2 mana
  5. Simic Signet2 mana
  6. Palladium Myr3 mana
  7. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  8. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana

Combos with Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Glarb, Calamity's Augur is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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