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Kalamax, the Stormsire

Legendary Creature — Elemental Dinosaur · {1}{G}{U}{R} · Green/Red/Blue commander

Whenever you cast your first instant spell each turn, if Kalamax is tapped, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. Whenever you copy an instant spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Kalamax.

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What Kalamax, the Stormsire 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_spellWhenever you cast your first instant spell each turn, if Kalamax is tapped, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever you copy an instant spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Kalamax.

What a Kalamax, the Stormsire deck needs

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

• instant spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)
• instants, sorceries and artifact spells worth copying (it copies your spells)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Kalamax, the Stormsire deck plan

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

• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Kalamax, the Stormsire

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 Kalamax, the Stormsire

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

• Kalamax, the Stormsire + Reverberate4,129 decks
• Kalamax, the Stormsire + Expansion3,597 decks
• Kalamax, the Stormsire + Increasing Vengeance3,082 decks
• Kalamax, the Stormsire + Twincast2,615 decks
• Kalamax, the Stormsire + Return The Favor1,738 decks
• Kalamax, the Stormsire + Reiterate857 decks

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