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Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
Legendary Creature — Cat Warrior · {1}{G}{W} · Green/White commander
Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
Whenever one or more creatures you control each with power greater than its base power deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
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What Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar 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 · deals_damageWhenever one or more creatures you control each with power greater than its base power deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
- Static ability · taxYour opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
What a Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar deck needs
Plays as counters & pump aggro. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- +1/+1 counter and pump effects (power above base power draws)
- evasion for the team
- combat protection
The Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
Best cards for Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
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 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
- Gingerbrute1 mana
- Soltari Foot Soldier1 mana
- Skrelv, Defector Mite1 mana
- Hungering Hydra1 mana
- Signal Pest1 mana
- Ornithopter0 mana
- Beloved Princess1 mana
- Prehistoric Pet1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Eladamri's Call2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Selesnya Signet2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Akroma's Will4 mana
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- The Wind Crystal4 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- On Wings of Gold4 mana
- Jasmine Boreal of the Seven3 mana
- Bellowing Tanglewurm5 mana
- Primal Rage2 mana