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Tellah, Great Sage

Tellah, Great Sage

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {3}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token. If four or more mana was spent to cast that spell, draw two cards. If eight or more mana was spent to cast that spell, sacrifice Tellah and it deals that much damage to each opponent.
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What Tellah, Great Sage 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 Tellah, Great Sage deck needs

Plays as noncreature cast trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Tellah, Great Sage deck plan

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

Best cards for Tellah, Great Sage

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.

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

  1. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  2. Replicating Ring3 mana
  3. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  4. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  5. Hanweir Garrison3 mana
  6. Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Fountainport0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Castle Embereth0 mana
  2. Great Train Heist1 mana
  3. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  4. Rising of the Day3 mana
  5. Purphoros, God of the Forge4 mana
  6. Kavaron, Memorial World0 mana
  7. Chief of the Foundry3 mana
  8. Frostcliff Siege3 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Crush1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Jilt2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Personal Tutor1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Desynchronization4 mana
  5. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  6. Whelming Wave4 mana
  7. Consuming Tide4 mana
  8. Selective Obliteration5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  7. Rhystic Study3 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Commander's Plate1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Akroma's Memorial7 mana

Combos with Tellah, Great Sage

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Tellah, Great Sage is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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