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Kestia, the Cultivator

Kestia, the Cultivator

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Nymph · {1}{G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander

Bestow {3}{G}{W}{U} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) Enchanted creature gets +4/+4. Whenever an enchanted creature or enchantment creature you control attacks, draw a card.
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What Kestia, the Cultivator actually does

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What a Kestia, the Cultivator deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Kestia, the Cultivator

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.

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Springheart Nantuko2 mana
  2. Indebted Spirit1 mana
  3. Nyxborn Hydra1 mana
  4. Hopeful Eidolon1 mana
  5. Hypnotic Siren1 mana
  6. Triton Wavebreaker1 mana
  7. Nyxborn Shieldmate1 mana
  8. Glyph Elemental2 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  3. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  4. Hornet Nest3 mana
  5. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  6. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  7. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  8. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Mystic Remora1 mana
  4. Wild Growth1 mana
  5. Aqueous Form1 mana
  6. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  7. Burgeoning1 mana
  8. Curiosity1 mana

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Paradise Mantle0 mana
  8. Trailblazer's Boots2 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
  3. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  4. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  5. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  6. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  7. Combine Chrysalis2 mana
  8. Favorable Winds2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Displacement Wave2 mana
  8. Harsh Mercy3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  5. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  6. Reshape2 mana
  7. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  8. Mask of the Mimic1 mana

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