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Tasha, the Witch Queen
Legendary Planeswalker — Tasha · {3}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander
Whenever you cast a spell you don't own, create a 3/3 black Demon creature token.
+1: Draw a card. For each opponent, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and put a page counter on it.
−3: You may cast a spell from among cards in exile with page counters on them without paying its mana cost.
Tasha, the Witch Queen can be your commander.
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What Tasha, the Witch Queen 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a spell you don't own, create a 3/3 black Demon creature token.
- Activated ability+1: Draw a card. For each opponent, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and put a page counter on it.
- Activated ability−3: You may cast a spell from among cards in exile with page counters on them without paying its mana cost.
What a Tasha, the Witch Queen deck needs
Plays as theft. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- theft of spells — cast opponents' cards (each spell you don't own makes a 3/3 Demon)
- protection for the commander planeswalker
The Tasha, the Witch Queen deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 7× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 7× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- 3× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 6× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Tasha, the Witch Queen
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.
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician4 mana
- Dreamtide Whale3 mana
- Flux Channeler3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Surgehacker Mech4 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Otawara, Soaring City0 mana
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Confront the Past1 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Master of Etherium3 mana
- Caged Sun6 mana
- Favorable Winds2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Heroes' Podium5 mana
- Endurance Bobblehead3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 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
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- Desynchronization4 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
Combos with Tasha, the Witch Queen
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Tasha, the Witch Queen is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Tasha, the Witch Queen + Displacer Kitten + The Chain Veil669 decks