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Tersa Lightshatter

Legendary Creature — Orc Wizard · {2}{R} · Red commander

Haste When Tersa Lightshatter enters, discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. Whenever Tersa Lightshatter attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, exile a card at random from your graveyard. You may play that card this turn.

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What Tersa Lightshatter 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 · etbWhen Tersa Lightshatter enters, discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Tersa Lightshatter attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, exile a card at random from your graveyard. You may play that card this turn.
• Keyword · hastehaste

What a Tersa Lightshatter deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine; it has haste)

The Tersa Lightshatter deck plan

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

• 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 8× 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
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Tersa Lightshatter

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.

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