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Goliath, Mass Manipulator

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Hero · {1}{G} · Green commander

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Power-up — {4}{G}: Put two +1/+1 counters on Goliath. Then draw a card for each creature you control with power 4 or greater. (Activate each power-up ability only once. Reduce the cost by his mana cost if he entered this turn.)

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What Goliath, Mass Manipulator actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{4}{G}: Put two +1/+1 counters on Goliath. Then draw a card for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.
• Keyword · reachreach
• Keyword · power-uppower-up

What a Goliath, Mass Manipulator deck needs

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

• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• creatures with power 4 or greater (its text only counts them)
• mana rocks and dorks beyond the curve (its ability turns spare mana into value)

The Goliath, Mass Manipulator deck plan

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

• 16× A creature at or above the commander's power floor — its text only counts them (dossier vet 2026-09-26: Bugenhagen, Gwenna, Ruby)
• 14× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
• 11× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Goliath, Mass Manipulator

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.

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