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Kaalia of the Vast

Kaalia of the Vast

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric · {1}{R}{W}{B} · Black/Red/White commander

Flying Whenever Kaalia attacks an opponent, you may put an Angel, Demon, or Dragon creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that opponent.
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What Kaalia of the Vast 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 Kaalia of the Vast deck needs

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

The Kaalia of the Vast deck plan

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

Best cards for Kaalia of the Vast

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  7. Fervor3 mana
  8. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince0 mana
  2. Giada, Font of Hope2 mana
  3. Segovian Angel1 mana
  4. Shivan Devastator1 mana
  5. Lightstall Inquisitor1 mana
  6. Slumbering Dragon1 mana
  7. Angel of Vitality3 mana
  8. Inspiring Overseer3 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  2. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  5. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  6. Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. On Wings of Gold4 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. Defile1 mana
  5. Tragic Slip1 mana
  6. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Terminate2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  7. Chain Reaction4 mana
  8. Day of Judgment4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Herald's Horn3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  7. General's Enforcer2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros Signet2 mana
  3. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  4. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Chrome Mox0 mana
  8. Everflowing Chalice0 mana

Combos with Kaalia of the Vast

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Kaalia of the Vast is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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