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Katara, Bending Prodigy
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally · {2}{U} · Blue commander
At the beginning of your end step, if Katara is tapped, put a +1/+1 counter on her.
Waterbend {6}: Draw a card. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.)
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What Katara, Bending Prodigy 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, if Katara is tapped, put a +1/+1 counter on her.
- Activated abilityWaterbend {6}: Draw a card.
What a Katara, Bending Prodigy deck needs
Plays as mana sink. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- ways to end the turn tapped — attacks and tap abilities (each end step tapped grows it)
- mana for waterbend draws
The Katara, Bending Prodigy deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Katara, Bending Prodigy
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.
Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Astral Cornucopia0 mana
- Mox Jasper0 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Vexing Radgull2 mana
- Kid Loki1 mana
- Dreamtide Whale3 mana
- Flux Channeler3 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Icy Prison2 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
- Perplexing Test5 mana
- Cyclonic Rift2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Katara, Bending Prodigy
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Katara, Bending Prodigy is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Katara, Bending Prodigy + Ashnod's Altar + Nadir Kraken + Biomancer's Familiar + Parallel Lives1 decks
- Katara, Bending Prodigy + Ashnod's Altar + Nadir Kraken + Parallel Lives + Training Grounds1 decks
- Katara, Bending Prodigy + Ashnod's Altar + Nadir Kraken + Adrix And Nev, Twincasters + Training Grounds1 decks
- Katara, Bending Prodigy + Ashnod's Altar + Nadir Kraken + Anointed Procession + Biomancer's Familiar
- Katara, Bending Prodigy + Ashnod's Altar + Nadir Kraken + Anointed Procession + Zirda, The Dawnwaker
- Katara, Bending Prodigy + Ashnod's Altar + Nadir Kraken + Anointed Procession + Training Grounds