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Katara, Seeking Revenge

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally · {3}{U/B} · Black/Blue commander

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend {2}. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.) When Katara enters, draw a card, then discard a card unless her additional cost was paid. Katara gets +1/+1 for each Lesson card in your graveyard.

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What Katara, Seeking Revenge 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 Katara enters, draw a card, then discard a card unless her additional cost was paid.
• AbilityAs an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend {2}.
• AbilityKatara gets +1/+1 for each Lesson card in your graveyard.

What a Katara, Seeking Revenge deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• lesson card (its size grows with them)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)

The Katara, Seeking Revenge deck plan

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

• 12× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 15× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 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 Katara, Seeking Revenge

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.

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