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Kathril, Aspect Warper

Legendary Creature — Nightmare Insect · {2}{W}{B}{G} · Black/Green/White commander

When Kathril enters, put a flying counter on any creature you control if a creature card in your graveyard has flying. Repeat this process for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. Then put a +1/+1 counter on Kathril for each counter put on a creature this way.

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What Kathril, Aspect Warper 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 Kathril enters, put a flying counter on any creature you control if a creature card in your graveyard has flying. Repeat this process for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, indest
• Keyword · double strikedouble strike
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
• Keyword · hexproofhexproof
• Keyword · indestructibleindestructible
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink
• Keyword · menacemenace
• Keyword · reachreach
• Keyword · trampletrample

What a Kathril, Aspect Warper deck needs

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

• creatures with keyword abilities in your graveyard (each keyword becomes a counter on your team and it)
• self-mill

The Kathril, Aspect Warper deck plan

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

• 10× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 11× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 10× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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 Kathril, Aspect Warper

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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