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Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Legendary Artifact Creature — Thopter · {3} · Colorless commander
Flash
Flying
You may cast colorless spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast that spell is greater than Liberator's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Liberator.
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What Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast that spell is greater than Liberator's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Liberator.
- Static ability · restrictionYou may cast colorless spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
- Keyword · flashflash
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter deck needs
Plays as flash artifacts & counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifact and colorless spells (cast at flash speed)
- spells with mana value above Liberator's power (each grows it)
- artifact payoffs
The Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 13× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 8× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 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
- 20× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
Best cards for Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
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 whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Meteor Golem7 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Dauntless Scrapbot3 mana
- Skyscanner3 mana
- Duplicant6 mana
- Threefold Thunderhulk7 mana
- Embermouth Sentinel2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
- Opal Palace0 mana
- Surge Conductor3 mana
- Blade of the Bloodchief1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
- Warping Wail2 mana
- Null Elemental Blast1 mana
- Zuko's Exile5 mana
- Clay Golem4 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
- Self-Assembler5 mana
- Pyre of Heroes2 mana
- Tamiyo's Journal5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Karn's Sylex3 mana
- Calamity of the Titans6 mana
- Apocalypse Chime2 mana
- The Moment2 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
- Key to the City2 mana
- Mask of Memory2 mana
- Tome of Legends2 mana
- Buster Sword3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 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
Combos with Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter + Ulalek, Fused Atrocity + Drowner Of Truth1,176 decks
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter + Glen Elendra Pranksters + Phyrexian Walker + Memnite3 decks
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter + Glen Elendra Pranksters + Phyrexian Walker + Ornithopter3 decks
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter + Glen Elendra Pranksters + Phyrexian Walker + Shield Sphere3 decks
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter + Glen Elendra Pranksters + Memnite + Ornithopter3 decks
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter + Glen Elendra Pranksters + Memnite + Shield Sphere3 decks