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Ka-Zar of the Savage Land

Legendary Creature — Human Barbarian Hero · {4}{G} · Green commander

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands from the top of your library. When Ka-Zar enters, create Zabu, a legendary 2/2 green Cat creature token with "Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Zabu."

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What Ka-Zar of the Savage Land 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 · etbWhen Ka-Zar enters, create Zabu, a legendary 2/2 green Cat creature token with "Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Zabu."
• Static ability · restrictionYou may play lands from the top of your library.

What a Ka-Zar of the Savage Land deck needs

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

• a dense deck of what it plays from the top, and top-deck manipulation (scry, Sensei's Top) to line it up
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)

The Ka-Zar of the Savage Land deck plan

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

• 16× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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

Best cards for Ka-Zar of the Savage Land

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.

Combos with Ka-Zar of the Savage Land

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ka-Zar of the Savage Land is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Ka-Zar of the Savage Land + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar1 decks

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