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Numa, Joraga Chieftain

Numa, Joraga Chieftain

Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior · {2}{G} · Green commander

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay {X}{X}. When you do, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target Elves. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
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What Numa, Joraga Chieftain actually does

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What a Numa, Joraga Chieftain deck needs

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

The Numa, Joraga Chieftain deck plan

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

Best cards for Numa, Joraga Chieftain

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A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  2. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
  3. Llanowar Elves1 mana
  4. Arbor Elf1 mana
  5. Bloom Tender2 mana
  6. Allosaurus Shepherd1 mana
  7. Boreal Druid1 mana
  8. Elvish Reclaimer1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  5. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  6. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  7. The Earth Crystal4 mana
  8. High Score3 mana

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

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Nature's Claim1 mana
  3. Emerald Charm1 mana
  4. Naturalize2 mana
  5. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  6. Natural State1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Archdruid's Charm3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Needle Storm3 mana
  3. Hurricane1 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Season of Gathering6 mana
  6. Gale Force5 mana
  7. Corrosive Gale1 mana
  8. Tropical Storm1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  4. Herald's Horn3 mana
  5. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Elemental Bond3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 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. Incubation Druid2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  6. Heritage Druid1 mana
  7. Joraga Treespeaker1 mana
  8. Llanowar Tribe3 mana

Combos with Numa, Joraga Chieftain

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Numa, Joraga Chieftain is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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