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Herigast, Erupting Nullkite
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi Dragon · {9} · Red commander
What Herigast, Erupting Nullkite 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 · cast_spellWhen you cast this spell, you may exile your hand. If you do, draw three cards.
- Keyword · emergeemerge
- Keyword · flyingflying
- AbilityEach creature spell you cast has emerge. The emerge cost is equal to its mana cost.
What a Herigast, Erupting Nullkite deck needs
Plays as emerge. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures to sacrifice for emerge (every creature spell has emerge)
- big creatures with enter or death value
The Herigast, Erupting Nullkite 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
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 12× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 12× Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
Best cards for Herigast, Erupting Nullkite
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
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana
- Frontier Warmonger4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Dragon's Approach3 mana
- Sarkhan's Triumph3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
- Vivi's Persistence2 mana
- Squee, Dubious Monarch3 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison4 mana
- Command the Stage3 mana
- Dunes of the Dead0 mana
Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- City on Fire8 mana
- Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
- Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
- Cavern-Hoard Dragon9 mana
- Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
- Metalwork Colossus11 mana
- Blaster Hulk8 mana
Combos with Herigast, Erupting Nullkite
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Herigast, Erupting Nullkite is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Herigast, Erupting Nullkite + Myr Retriever + Junk Diver + Workshop Assistant + Glaring Fleshraker114 decks
- Herigast, Erupting Nullkite + Cloudstone Curio + Molten Echoes32 decks
- Herigast, Erupting Nullkite + Cloudstone Curio + Flameshadow Conjuring + Birgi, God Of Storytelling14 decks
- Herigast, Erupting Nullkite + Brinelin, The Moon Kraken + Skitterbeam Battalion2 decks
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