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Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern

Legendary Creature — God // Legendary Artifact · {3}{B}{B} {3}{B} · Black commander

Menace Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. {T}: Target player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card. {3}{B}: Untap Tergrid's Lantern.

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What Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 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 · sacrificeWhenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
• Activated ability{T}: Target player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.
• Activated ability{3}{B}: Untap Tergrid's Lantern.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern deck needs

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

• forced sacrifice and discard effects (you take what they lose)
• punisher pieces
• untap effects for the tap drain

The Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern deck plan

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

• 5× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 8× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 6× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 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

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