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Havi, the All-Father
Legendary Creature — God Warrior · {3}{R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander
Havi has indestructible as long as there are four or more historic cards in your graveyard. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Sage Project — Whenever Havi or another legendary creature you control dies, return target legendary creature card with lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
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What Havi, the All-Father actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · deathWhenever Havi or another legendary creature you control dies, return target legendary creature card with lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- Keyword · sage projectsage project
What a Havi, the All-Father deck needs
Plays as legends. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- legendary creatures across mana values (each death returns a smaller one)
- sacrifice outlets
The Havi, the All-Father deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 6× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 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
Best cards for Havi, the All-Father
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.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Akroma's Will4 mana
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
- The Wind Crystal4 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Grapple with the Past2 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Goblin Bombardment2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
- Betrothed of Fire2 mana
- Phyrexian Altar3 mana
- Fanatical Devotion3 mana
- Martyr's Cause3 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Old-Growth Troll3 mana
- Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
- Vivi's Persistence2 mana
- Otharri, Suns' Glory5 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Erode1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Eladamri's Call2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
Combos with Havi, the All-Father
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Havi, the All-Father is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Havi, the All-Father + Saffi Eriksdotter + Phlage, Titan Of Fire's Fury584 decks
- Havi, the All-Father + Saffi Eriksdotter + Goblin Bombardment459 decks
- Havi, the All-Father + Saffi Eriksdotter + Ashnod's Altar415 decks
- Havi, the All-Father + Saffi Eriksdotter + Altar Of Dementia386 decks
- Havi, the All-Father + Saffi Eriksdotter + Phyrexian Altar211 decks
- Havi, the All-Father + The Jolly Balloon Man + Ashnod's Altar171 decks