Arcane Foundry › Commanders › Gorex, the Tombshell

Gorex, the Tombshell

Gorex, the Tombshell

Legendary Creature — Zombie Turtle · {6}{B}{B} · Black commander

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Deathtouch Whenever Gorex attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.
Build a Gorex, the Tombshell deck →

What Gorex, the Tombshell 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 Gorex, the Tombshell deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Gorex, the Tombshell

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.

A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Walking Ballista0 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Mishra's Bauble0 mana
  5. Profane Tutor0 mana
  6. Sol Talisman0 mana
  7. Tormod's Crypt0 mana
  8. Urza's Bauble0 mana

Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander

  1. Ugin's Labyrinth0 mana
  2. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
  3. Endless Sands0 mana
  4. Mimic Vat3 mana
  5. Bag of Holding1 mana
  6. Currency Converter1 mana
  7. Dawnhand Dissident1 mana
  8. Dino DNA1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  2. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  3. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  4. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  5. Liliana, the Last Hope3 mana
  6. Nest of Scarabs3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Grave Titan6 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Phyrexian Tower0 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  4. Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
  5. Scavenger's Talent1 mana
  6. Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
  7. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
  8. Fain, the Broker3 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Mindcrank2 mana
  5. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  6. Codex Shredder1 mana
  7. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  8. Tomb Fortress0 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

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  8. Diabolic Intent2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Kederekt Parasite1 mana

Build this deck in the Arcane Forge →

Arcane Foundry is free to join and every tool is included: the Arcane Forge deck builder, the ARCANE Analyzer that scores a deck by simulating games rather than counting staples, a card scanner, a collection vault, and live webcam Commander tables. Read the guide · Browse all commanders · Pricing