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Nath of the Gilt-Leaf

Nath of the Gilt-Leaf

Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior · {3}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have target opponent discard a card at random. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.
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What Nath of the Gilt-Leaf 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 Nath of the Gilt-Leaf deck needs

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

The Nath of the Gilt-Leaf deck plan

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

Best cards for Nath of the Gilt-Leaf

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.

Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on

  1. Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
  2. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  3. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
  4. Liliana of the Veil3 mana
  5. Rankle, Master of Pranks4 mana
  6. Anvil of Bogardan2 mana
  7. The Raven Man2 mana
  8. Drainpipe Vermin1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  3. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  4. Wrenn and Seven5 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Rampant Frogantua3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Fountainport0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Finale of Devastation2 mana
  2. Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
  3. Elvish Archdruid3 mana
  4. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  5. Assault Formation2 mana
  6. Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
  7. Sylvan Anthem2 mana
  8. Weaver of Harmony2 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Fatal Push1 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Nature's Claim1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Grim Tutor3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Vicious Rivalry4 mana
  8. Endemic Plague4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Golgari Signet2 mana
  3. Incubation Druid2 mana
  4. Palladium Myr3 mana
  5. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  6. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Joraga Treespeaker1 mana

Combos with Nath of the Gilt-Leaf

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Nath of the Gilt-Leaf is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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