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Khârn the Betrayer

Khârn the Betrayer

Legendary Creature — Astartes Berserker · {3}{R} · Red commander

Berzerker — Khârn the Betrayer attacks or blocks each combat if able. Sigil of Corruption — When you lose control of Khârn the Betrayer, draw two cards. The Betrayer — If damage would be dealt to Khârn the Betrayer, prevent that damage and an opponent of your choice gains control of it.
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What Khârn the Betrayer actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Khârn the Betrayer deck needs

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

The Khârn the Betrayer deck plan

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

Best cards for Khârn the Betrayer

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 permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  3. Oketra's Monument3 mana
  4. Artist's Talent2 mana
  5. Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
  6. Roiling Vortex2 mana
  7. Hazoret's Monument3 mana
  8. Rhonas's Monument3 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Gamble1 mana
  7. Hoarding Dragon5 mana
  8. Shrine Steward5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  8. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one

  1. Impact Tremors2 mana
  2. Shivan Gorge0 mana
  3. Coruscation Mage2 mana
  4. Descent into Avernus3 mana
  5. Ramunap Ruins0 mana
  6. Agate Instigator2 mana
  7. Firebrand Archer2 mana
  8. Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar2 mana

Combos with Khârn the Betrayer

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Khârn the Betrayer is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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