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Terra, Herald of Hope

Terra, Herald of Hope

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Warrior · {R}{W}{B} · Black/Red/White commander

Trance — At the beginning of combat on your turn, mill two cards. Terra gains flying until end of turn. Whenever Terra deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}. When you do, return target creature card with power 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
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What Terra, Herald of Hope actually does

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What a Terra, Herald of Hope deck wants

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Best cards for Terra, Herald of Hope

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 the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
  2. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  3. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  4. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  5. Cloudshredder Sliver2 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  8. Shadowspear1 mana

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

  1. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  2. Millikin2 mana
  3. Excavated Wall1 mana
  4. Eye Collector1 mana
  5. Gnawing Vermin1 mana
  6. Thieves' Guild Enforcer1 mana
  7. Golgari Thug2 mana
  8. Mire Triton2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Mindcrank2 mana
  5. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  6. Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
  7. Codex Shredder1 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. Defile1 mana
  5. Tragic Slip1 mana
  6. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Terminate2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Amalia Benavides Aguirre2 mana
  4. Do or Die2 mana
  5. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  6. Pest Control2 mana
  7. Force of Despair3 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  8. Diabolic Intent2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Archivist of Oghma2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  5. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  6. Cryptothrall4 mana
  7. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  8. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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