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Katara, Waterbending Master

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally · {1}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you get an experience counter. Whenever Katara attacks, you may draw a card for each experience counter you have. If you do, discard a card.

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What Katara, Waterbending Master 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 a spell during an opponent's turn, you get an experience counter.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Katara attacks, you may draw a card for each experience counter you have. If you do, discard a card.

What a Katara, Waterbending Master deck needs

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

• instants and flash spells (only a spell cast during an opponent's turn triggers it)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Katara, Waterbending Master deck plan

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

• 7× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 10× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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, Waterbending Master

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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