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Imotekh the Stormlord
Legendary Artifact Creature — Necron · {2}{B}{B} · Black commander
Phaeron — Whenever one or more artifact cards leave your graveyard, create two 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens.
Grand Strategist — At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target artifact creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains menace until end of turn.
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What Imotekh the Stormlord 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 · otherWhenever one or more artifact cards leave your graveyard, create two 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens.
- Triggered ability · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, another target artifact creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains menace until end of turn.
- Keyword · phaeronphaeron
- Keyword · grand strategistgrand strategist
What an Imotekh the Stormlord deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifacts (its text counts them)
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
- cards leaving your graveyard — flashback, escape, delve and reanimation (each one triggers it)
The Imotekh the Stormlord deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- 8× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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
Best cards for Imotekh the Stormlord
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 spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- Gravecrawler1 mana
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Hidden Necropolis0 mana
- Lotus Bloom0 mana
- Mox Tantalite0 mana
- Woe Strider3 mana
- Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid0 mana
- Profane Tutor0 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Lotus Petal0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
- Ornithopter0 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
- Grave Titan6 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Spawnbed Protector7 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Caged Sun6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Heroes' Podium5 mana
- Endurance Bobblehead3 mana
- Skorpekh Lord3 mana
- The Immortal Sun6 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Combos with Imotekh the Stormlord
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Imotekh the Stormlord is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Imotekh the Stormlord + Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Ashnod's Altar5,931 decks
- Imotekh the Stormlord + Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks4,867 decks
- Imotekh the Stormlord + Junk Diver + Myr Retriever + Ashnod's Altar4,768 decks
- Imotekh the Stormlord + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar4,163 decks
- Imotekh the Stormlord + Myr Retriever + Workshop Assistant + Ashnod's Altar3,846 decks
- Imotekh the Stormlord + Junk Diver + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks3,727 decks
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