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Ketramose, the New Dawn
Legendary Creature — God · {1}{W}{B} · Black/White commander
Menace, lifelink, indestructible
Ketramose can't attack or block unless there are seven or more cards in exile.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards and/or the battlefield during your turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
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What Ketramose, the New Dawn 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 · exileWhenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards and/or the battlefield during your turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
- Keyword · menacemenace
- Keyword · lifelinklifelink
- Keyword · indestructibleindestructible
- AbilityKetramose can't attack or block unless there are seven or more cards in exile.
What a Ketramose, the New Dawn deck needs
Plays as exile matters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- exile effects — exile removal, blink, delve and graveyard exile (each exile on your turn draws)
The Ketramose, the New Dawn 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
- 10× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Ketramose, the New Dawn
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Felidar Guardian4 mana
A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- Gravecrawler1 mana
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Hidden Courtyard0 mana
- Hidden Necropolis0 mana
- Lotus Bloom0 mana
- Mox Tantalite0 mana
- Ephemerate1 mana
- Woe Strider3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Ketramose, the New Dawn
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ketramose, the New Dawn is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Ketramose, the New Dawn + Currency Converter + Sheoldred, The Apocalypse1,285 decks
- Ketramose, the New Dawn + Necropotence + Sheoldred, The Apocalypse1,034 decks
- Ketramose, the New Dawn + Containment Construct + Sheoldred, The Apocalypse656 decks
- Ketramose, the New Dawn + Containment Construct + Sheoldred, The Apocalypse + Putrid Imp383 decks
- Ketramose, the New Dawn + Toluz, Clever Conductor + Feast Of Sanity353 decks
- Ketramose, the New Dawn + Containment Construct + Skirge Familiar + Sheoldred, The Apocalypse342 decks