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Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus
Legendary Artifact Creature — Gnome // Legendary Artifact Creature — Gnome · {U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander
Whenever Tetzin or another double-faced artifact you control enters, mill three cards. You may put an artifact card from among them into your hand.
Craft with six artifacts {4} ({4}, Exile this artifact, Exile the six from among other permanents you control and/or cards from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Vigilance, trample
Whenever The Golden-Gear Colossus enters or attacks, transform up to one other target double-faced artifact you control. Create two 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens.
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What Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus 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 · etbWhenever Tetzin or another double-faced artifact you control enters, mill three cards. You may put an artifact card from among them into your hand.
- Triggered ability · attackWhenever The Golden-Gear Colossus enters or attacks, transform up to one other target double-faced artifact you control. Create two 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens.
- Keyword · craftcraft
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
- Keyword · transformtransform
- Keyword · trampletrample
- Keyword · millmill
What a Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 10× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
Best cards for Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Soulherder3 mana
- Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Brago, King Eternal4 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Hedron Crab1 mana
- Ruin Crab1 mana
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Okaun, Eye of Chaos0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Twinferno2 mana
- Fireshrieker3 mana
- Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Chasm Skulker3 mana
- Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
- Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon3 mana
- Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Pashalik Mons3 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana
A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Lotus Petal0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
- Ornithopter0 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
- Temple of Epiphany0 mana
- Temple of Triumph0 mana
- Azorius Chancery0 mana
- Boros Garrison0 mana
- Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
- Elegant Parlor0 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Intangible Virtue2 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Inspiring Leader3 mana
- Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
- Mite Overseer4 mana
- Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun2 mana
- Phantom General4 mana
- Nesting Grounds0 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Brain Freeze2 mana
- Mindcrank2 mana
- Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
- Codex Shredder1 mana
- Hedron Crab1 mana
- Thought Scour1 mana
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Chasm Skulker3 mana
- Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
- Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon3 mana
- Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Pashalik Mons3 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana