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Guru Pathik

Guru Pathik

Legendary Creature — Human Monk Ally · {2}{G/U}{G/U} · Green/Blue commander

When Guru Pathik enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Lesson, Saga, or Shrine card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Whenever you cast a Lesson, Saga, or Shrine spell, put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
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What Guru Pathik 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 Guru Pathik deck needs

Plays as lesson cast trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Guru Pathik deck plan

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

Best cards for Guru Pathik

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. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Gossip's Talent2 mana
  4. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
  5. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  6. Voyager Staff1 mana
  7. Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
  8. Deadeye Navigator6 mana

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Urza's Saga0 mana
  2. Boomerang Basics1 mana
  3. Octopus Form1 mana
  4. Seismic Sense1 mana
  5. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  6. Shared Roots2 mana
  7. Long List of the Ents1 mana
  8. Aang's Journey2 mana

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

  1. Eternal Witness3 mana
  2. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  3. Arboreal Grazer1 mana
  4. Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
  5. Reclamation Sage3 mana
  6. Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
  7. Wood Elves3 mana
  8. Badgermole Cub2 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  5. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  6. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  7. The Earth Crystal4 mana
  8. High Score3 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Nature's Claim1 mana
  7. Emerald Charm1 mana
  8. Naturalize2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. Reshape2 mana
  6. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  7. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  8. Long-Term Plans3 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. Desynchronization4 mana
  2. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  3. Whelming Wave4 mana
  4. Consuming Tide4 mana
  5. Oversimplify5 mana
  6. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  7. Needle Storm3 mana
  8. Evacuation5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  7. Rhystic Study3 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

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