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Tataru Taru

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Advisor · {1}{W} · White commander

When Tataru Taru enters, you draw a card and target opponent may draw a card. Scions' Secretary — Whenever an opponent draws a card, if it isn't that player's turn, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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What Tataru Taru 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 Tataru Taru enters, you draw a card and target opponent may draw a card.
• Triggered ability · drawWhenever an opponent draws a card, if it isn't that player's turn, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

What a Tataru Taru deck needs

Plays as group draw into treasures. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• effects that make opponents draw on your turn (each makes a Treasure)
• treasure payoffs
• blink to re-buy the ETB

The Tataru Taru deck plan

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

• 9× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
• 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 10× Make opponents draw — for a commander that punishes their draw, the punishment is the deck's damage source
• 9× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 7× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
• 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 Tataru Taru

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.

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