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Tameshi, Reality Architect
Legendary Creature — Moonfolk Wizard · {2}{U} · Blue/White commander
What Tameshi, Reality Architect 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 · otherWhenever one or more noncreature permanents are returned to hand, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
- Activated ability{X}{W}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Return target artifact or enchantment card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
What a Tameshi, Reality Architect deck needs
Plays as bounce. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifacts and enchantments to recur (returning a land brings one back)
- bounce lands and noncreature bounce
The Tameshi, Reality Architect deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 18× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
Best cards for Tameshi, Reality Architect
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 your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Fraying Sanity3 mana
- Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
- Sequestered Stash0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Transmute Artifact2 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 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
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Tameshi, Reality Architect
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Tameshi, Reality Architect is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Tameshi, Reality Architect + Patron Of The Moon + Lotus Bloom1,420 decks
- Tameshi, Reality Architect + Lotus Bloom + Mirrormade + Seat Of The Synod1,320 decks
- Tameshi, Reality Architect + Lotus Bloom + Mirrormade + Ancient Den1,309 decks
- Tameshi, Reality Architect + Lotus Bloom + Copy Artifact + Ancient Den1,116 decks
- Tameshi, Reality Architect + Lotus Bloom + Copy Artifact + Seat Of The Synod1,113 decks
- Tameshi, Reality Architect + Mind Over Matter + Ancient Den + Seat Of The Synod898 decks
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