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Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
Legendary Creature — Elf Spirit · {1}{R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander
At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn, where X is Obuun's power. It's still a land.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
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What Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor 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 · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn, where X is Obuun's power. It's still a land.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
What an Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor deck needs
Plays as lands. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
- land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
The Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 22× 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
- 6× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
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
- Exploration1 mana
- Explore2 mana
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
- Exploration Broodship1 mana
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
- Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
- Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
- Druid Class2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Conclave Mentor2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Erode1 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
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Boros Signet2 mana
- Gruul Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Selesnya Signet2 mana
Combos with Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor + Fertilid + Lotus Cobra + Spelunking80 decks
- Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor + Fertilid + Tireless Provisioner + Spelunking74 decks
- Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor + Fertilid + Amulet Of Vigor + Lotus Cobra23 decks
- Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor + Fertilid + Lotus Cobra + Horizon Explorer17 decks
- Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor + Fertilid + Tireless Provisioner + Horizon Explorer16 decks
- Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor + Fertilid + Tiller Engine + Lotus Cobra14 decks