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Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior · {2}{B}{B} · Black commander

Lifelink If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.
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What Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet 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 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet deck needs

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

The Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet deck plan

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

Best cards for Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

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

  1. Viscera Seer1 mana
  2. Blood Artist2 mana
  3. Indulgent Aristocrat1 mana
  4. Master of Dark Rites1 mana
  5. Blood Seeker2 mana
  6. Bloodghast2 mana
  7. Cordial Vampire2 mana
  8. Creeping Bloodsucker2 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Bloodghast2 mana
  2. Carrier Thrall2 mana
  3. Oathsworn Vampire2 mana
  4. Pawn of Ulamog3 mana
  5. Falkenrath Forebear3 mana
  6. Silversmote Ghoul3 mana
  7. Promise of Aclazotz // Foul Rebirth2 mana
  8. Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage4 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  2. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  3. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  4. Walking Ballista0 mana
  5. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  6. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  7. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
  8. Opal Palace0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  2. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  3. Adaptive Automaton3 mana
  4. Captivating Vampire3 mana
  5. Chief of the Foundry3 mana
  6. Icon of Ancestry3 mana
  7. Banner of Kinship5 mana
  8. Vanquisher's Banner5 mana

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

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 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. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Herald's Horn3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

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