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Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant

Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {3}{B} · Black commander

When Gothmog enters, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.) Creature tokens you control have deathtouch.
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What Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant actually does

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What a Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant deck wants

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Best cards for Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant

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.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Easterling Vanguard2 mana
  2. Lazotep Reaver2 mana
  3. Vizier of the Scorpion3 mana
  4. Azog, Moria's Ruin3 mana
  5. Dunland Crebain3 mana
  6. Gríma Wormtongue3 mana
  7. Rhovanion Rampager3 mana
  8. Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant4 mana

A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

  1. Valley Rotcaller2 mana
  2. Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel3 mana
  3. Weathered Sentinels3 mana
  4. Bloodsoaked Champion1 mana
  5. Rev, Tithe Extractor4 mana
  6. Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
  7. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger // Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger0 mana
  8. Myr Battlesphere7 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  4. Lotus Field0 mana
  5. Mortuary Mire0 mana
  6. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  7. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  8. Witch's Cottage0 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

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. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 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

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