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T'Chaka, Venerable King

T'Chaka, Venerable King

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Hero · {G}{W} · Green/White commander

When T'Chaka enters, mill three cards, then you may put an artifact or land card from among the milled cards into your hand. {3}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You become the monarch. Activate only if you control your commander.
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What T'Chaka, Venerable King 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 T'Chaka, Venerable King deck needs

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

The T'Chaka, Venerable King deck plan

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

Best cards for T'Chaka, Venerable King

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. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  4. Flickerwisp3 mana
  5. Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
  6. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  7. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  8. Emiel the Blessed4 mana

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

  1. Eternal Witness3 mana
  2. Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
  3. Spirited Companion2 mana
  4. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  5. Arboreal Grazer1 mana
  6. Loran of the Third Path3 mana
  7. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  8. Reclamation Sage3 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  2. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  3. Six3 mana
  4. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
  5. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  6. Grapple with the Past2 mana
  7. Millikin2 mana
  8. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Beast Within3 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Nature's Claim1 mana
  7. Erode1 mana
  8. Unwanted Remake1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Eladamri's Call2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Day of Judgment4 mana
  4. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  5. Split Up3 mana
  6. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  7. Depopulate4 mana
  8. No Witnesses4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  5. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  6. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Incubation Druid2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  6. Selesnya Signet2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Llanowar Tribe3 mana

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