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Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
Legendary Creature — Dragon · {4}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander
What Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund 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 Karrthus enters, gain control of all Dragons, then untap all Dragons.
- Static ability · keyword_grantOther Dragon creatures you control have haste.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund deck needs
Plays as dragon typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- Dragons (it steals every Dragon on entering and gives yours haste)
- blink for the commander
The Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 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
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
- Diabolic Servitude4 mana
- Meandering Towershell5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cover of Darkness2 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
- Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Shivan Devastator1 mana
- Slumbering Dragon1 mana
- Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw2 mana
- Reckless Barbarian2 mana
- Scaled Nurturer2 mana
- Atsushi, the Blazing Sky4 mana
- Leyline Tyrant4 mana
- Thunderbreak Regent4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Combos with Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund + Splinter Twin37 decks
- Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Astral Dragon + Strionic Resonator3 decks
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