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Nikya of the Old Ways

Nikya of the Old Ways

Legendary Creature — Centaur Druid · {3}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander

You can't cast noncreature spells. Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.
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What Nikya of the Old Ways 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 Nikya of the Old Ways deck needs

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

The Nikya of the Old Ways deck plan

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

Best cards for Nikya of the Old Ways

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

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Explore2 mana
  3. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
  4. Exploration Broodship1 mana
  5. Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
  6. Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
  7. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  8. Druid Class2 mana

Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. The Great Henge9 mana
  3. City on Fire8 mana
  4. Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
  5. Ghalta, Primal Hunger12 mana
  6. Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
  7. Cavern-Hoard Dragon9 mana
  8. Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Beast Within3 mana
  3. Nature's Claim1 mana
  4. Crush1 mana
  5. Emerald Charm1 mana
  6. Naturalize2 mana
  7. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  8. Natural State1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Summoner's Pact0 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. Needle Storm3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  5. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  6. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Sticky Fingers1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Asceticism5 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Gruul Signet2 mana
  3. Incubation Druid2 mana
  4. Palladium Myr3 mana
  5. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  6. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Llanowar Tribe3 mana

Combos with Nikya of the Old Ways

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Nikya of the Old Ways is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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