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Helga, Skittish Seer

Helga, Skittish Seer

Legendary Creature — Frog Druid · {G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander

Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, you draw a card, gain 1 life, and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Helga's power. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with {X} in their mana costs.
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What Helga, Skittish Seer 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 Helga, Skittish Seer deck needs

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

The Helga, Skittish Seer deck plan

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

Best cards for Helga, Skittish Seer

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

  1. Dryad Arbor0 mana
  2. Ornithopter0 mana
  3. Walking Ballista0 mana
  4. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  5. Delighted Halfling1 mana
  6. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  7. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  8. Fyndhorn Elves1 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. Conclave Mentor2 mana
  5. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  6. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  7. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  8. Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Beast Within3 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. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  3. Wrath of God4 mana
  4. Day of Judgment4 mana
  5. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  6. Split Up3 mana
  7. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  8. Depopulate4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Curiosity1 mana
  6. Wizard Class1 mana
  7. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  8. Rhystic Study3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  6. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  7. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  8. Lost in the Maze2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Incubation Druid2 mana
  4. Simic Signet2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  8. Selesnya Signet2 mana

Combos with Helga, Skittish Seer

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Helga, Skittish Seer is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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