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Thanos, the Mad Titan

Legendary Creature — Eternal Villain · {R}{W}{B} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander

Deathtouch, lifelink Power-up — {C}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Put two +1/+1 counters on Thanos. Choose odd or even. Destroy each other creature with mana value of the chosen quality. (Activate each power-up ability only once. Reduce the cost by his mana cost if he entered this turn. Zero is even.)

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What Thanos, the Mad Titan actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{C}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Put two +1/+1 counters on Thanos. Choose odd or even. Destroy each other creature with mana value of the chosen quality.
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink
• Keyword · power-uppower-up

What a Thanos, the Mad Titan deck needs

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

• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Thanos, the Mad Titan deck plan

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

• 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 12× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Thanos, the Mad Titan

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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