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What Keiga, the Tide Star 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 · deathWhen Keiga dies, gain control of target creature.
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Keiga, the Tide Star deck needs
Plays as death value. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- sacrifice outlets and recursion for the commander (its own death is the payoff)
The Keiga, the Tide Star deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Keiga, the Tide Star
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.
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
- Phyrexian Altar3 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
- Witch's Oven1 mana
- Culling Dais2 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Wonder4 mana
- Reverse the Polarity3 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Archetype of Imagination6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 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
- Dragonologist3 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 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 Keiga, the Tide Star
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Keiga, the Tide Star is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Keiga, the Tide Star + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar173 decks
- Keiga, the Tide Star + Nim Deathmantle + Pitiless Plunderer + Phyrexian Altar24 decks
- Keiga, the Tide Star + Nim Deathmantle + Pitiless Plunderer + Thermopod1 decks