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Tataru Taru

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

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What a Tataru Taru deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

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.

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

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  3. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  4. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  5. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  6. Felidar Guardian4 mana
  7. Restoration Angel4 mana
  8. Teleportation Circle4 mana

Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them

  1. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  2. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  3. Boromir, Warden of the Tower3 mana
  4. Scrawling Crawler3 mana
  5. Tataru Taru2 mana
  6. Trouble in Pairs4 mana
  7. Monologue Tax3 mana
  8. Wedding Ring4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  2. Gleaming Barrier2 mana
  3. Marching Duodrone2 mana
  4. Battle Angels of Tyr4 mana
  5. Summon: Yojimbo4 mana
  6. Ticket Tortoise2 mana
  7. Halo Scarab2 mana
  8. Long-Bodied Grey Dog3 mana

Make opponents draw — for a commander that punishes their draw, the punishment is the deck's damage source

  1. Scrawling Crawler3 mana
  2. Howling Golem3 mana
  3. The Legend of Yangchen // Avatar Yangchen5 mana
  4. The Legend of Yangchen // Avatar Yangchen5 mana
  5. Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
  6. Mikokoro, Center of the Sea0 mana
  7. Cut a Deal3 mana
  8. Temple Bell3 mana

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

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  3. Lotus Field0 mana
  4. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  5. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  6. Soul Warden1 mana
  7. Soul's Attendant1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break

  1. Grand Abolisher2 mana
  2. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  3. Shadowspear1 mana
  4. Ghostly Prison3 mana
  5. Arcane Lighthouse0 mana
  6. Blind Obedience2 mana
  7. Drannith Magistrate2 mana
  8. Voice of Victory2 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  5. Mite Overseer4 mana
  6. Phantom General4 mana
  7. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  8. Mother of Runes1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  2. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  3. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  4. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana
  5. Parhelion II // Parhelion II0 mana
  6. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  7. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  8. Champions from Beyond2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mana Tithe1 mana
  2. Rebuff the Wicked1 mana
  3. Dawn Charm2 mana
  4. Frontline Medic3 mana
  5. Lapse of Certainty3 mana
  6. Kozilek, the Great Distortion10 mana
  7. Not of This World7 mana
  8. Equinox1 mana

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