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Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror · {2}{U}{U} · Blue commander

Flying If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead. {1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

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What Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal.
• Replacement effect · proliferate_doublerIf you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus deck needs

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

• counter producers and proliferate (every counter placed is multiplied)
• counter producers (it proliferates every turn)

The Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus deck plan

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

• 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 6× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× 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
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

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.

Combos with Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus + Magistrate's Scepter + Contagion Engine3,983 decks
• Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus + Ichormoon Gauntlet + Jace, Cunning Castaway2,553 decks
• Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus + Magistrate's Scepter + Coretapper + Contagion Clasp548 decks
• Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus + Magistrate's Scepter + Lithoform Engine + Karn's Bastion244 decks
• Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus + Viral Drake + Cryptic Trilobite + Crystalline Crawler110 decks
• Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus + Evolution Sage + Life And Limb + Sporoloth Ancient95 decks

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