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Phylath, World Sculptor
Legendary Creature — Elemental · {4}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander
When Phylath enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each basic land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put four +1/+1 counters on target Plant you control.
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What Phylath, World Sculptor 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 Phylath enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each basic land you control.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever a land you control enters, put four +1/+1 counters on target Plant you control.
What a Phylath, World Sculptor deck needs
Plays as plant 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)
- plant creatures (its text counts them)
The Phylath, World Sculptor 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
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
Best cards for Phylath, World Sculptor
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
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
- Meandering Towershell5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Tinder Wall1 mana
- Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
- Genesis Hydra2 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Sabotender2 mana
- Sylvan Caryatid2 mana
- Wall of Blossoms2 mana
- Jaddi Offshoot1 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
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
- Wood Elves3 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
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Combos with Phylath, World Sculptor
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Phylath, World Sculptor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Phylath, World Sculptor + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar26 decks
- Phylath, World Sculptor + Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar12 decks
- Phylath, World Sculptor + Cloudstone Curio + Phyrexian Altar9 decks
- Phylath, World Sculptor + Kenrith, The Returned King + Phyrexian Altar7 decks
- Phylath, World Sculptor + Eldrazi Displacer + Ashnod's Altar4 decks
- Phylath, World Sculptor + Dino Dna + Ashnod's Altar4 decks
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