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Katilda and Lier

Legendary Creature — Human · {G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander

Whenever you cast a Human spell, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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What Katilda and Lier 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 Human spell, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.

What a Katilda and Lier deck needs

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

• Human spells (each gives an instant or sorcery in your graveyard flashback)
• instants and sorceries worth recasting

The Katilda and Lier deck plan

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

• 27× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 6× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 6× 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 Katilda and Lier

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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