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Koth, the Geomancer
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {2}{R} · Red commander
Reach
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, Koth deals 1 damage to each opponent. If that land is a Mountain, add {R}.
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What Koth, the Geomancer 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 · etbWhenever a land you control enters, Koth deals 1 damage to each opponent. If that land is a Mountain, add {R}.
- Keyword · reachreach
What a Koth, the Geomancer deck needs
Plays as lands. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
The Koth, the Geomancer deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 32× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 9× 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
- 11× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 6× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Koth, the Geomancer
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.
Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- Sword of Forge and Frontier3 mana
- Zell Dincht3 mana
- Storm Cauldron5 mana
- Evolving Wilds0 mana
- Fabled Passage0 mana
- Flooded Strand0 mana
- Misty Rainforest0 mana
- Myriad Landscape0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
- Hoarding Dragon5 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 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