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Omnath, Locus of the Roil
Legendary Creature — Elemental · {1}{G}{U}{R} · Green/Red/Blue commander
When Omnath enters, it deals damage to any target equal to the number of Elementals you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target Elemental you control. If you control eight or more lands, draw a card.
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What Omnath, Locus of the Roil 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 · etbWhen Omnath enters, it deals damage to any target equal to the number of Elementals you control.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target Elemental you control. If you control eight or more lands, draw a card.
What an Omnath, Locus of the Roil deck needs
Plays as elemental typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
- elemental creatures (its text counts them)
The Omnath, Locus of the Roil deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 14× 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
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
Best cards for Omnath, Locus of the Roil
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
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Gossip's Talent2 mana
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar2 mana
- Runaway Steam-Kin2 mana
- Flamekin Harbinger1 mana
- Mossborn Hydra3 mana
- Xorn3 mana
- Akoum Hellhound1 mana
- Fleeting Effigy1 mana
- Floodhound1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 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
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Crush1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
Combos with Omnath, Locus of the Roil
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Omnath, Locus of the Roil is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil + Abundance + Retreat To Coralhelm + Sakura-Tribe Scout135 decks
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil + Abundance + Retreat To Coralhelm + Llanowar Scout98 decks
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil + Abundance + Retreat To Coralhelm + Walking Atlas58 decks
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil + Abundance + Retreat To Coralhelm + Scaled Herbalist49 decks
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil + Abundance + Retreat To Coralhelm + Pupu Ufo46 decks
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil + Abundance + Retreat To Coralhelm + Skyshroud Ranger40 decks
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