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Quickbeam, Upstart Ent

Quickbeam, Upstart Ent

Legendary Creature — Treefolk · {4}{G}{G} · Green commander

Whenever Quickbeam or another Treefolk you control enters, up to two target creatures each get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.
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What Quickbeam, Upstart Ent 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 Quickbeam, Upstart Ent deck needs

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

The Quickbeam, Upstart Ent deck plan

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

Best cards for Quickbeam, Upstart Ent

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.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  2. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  3. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  4. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana

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

  1. Six3 mana
  2. Treefolk Harbinger1 mana
  3. Willow Geist1 mana
  4. Scurry Oak3 mana
  5. Great Forest Druid2 mana
  6. Bosk Banneret2 mana
  7. Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant2 mana
  8. Sheltering Ancient2 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Eternal Witness3 mana
  2. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  3. Arboreal Grazer1 mana
  4. Reclamation Sage3 mana
  5. Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
  6. Wood Elves3 mana
  7. Badgermole Cub2 mana
  8. Elvish Visionary2 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  2. Voyager Staff1 mana
  3. Golden Argosy4 mana
  4. Meandering Towershell5 mana
  5. Eldrazi Confluence4 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. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

Combos with Quickbeam, Upstart Ent

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Quickbeam, Upstart Ent is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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