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The Dawning Archaic

The Dawning Archaic

Legendary Creature — Avatar · {10} · Colorless commander

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. Reach Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
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What The Dawning Archaic actually does

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What a The Dawning Archaic deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for The Dawning Archaic

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.

Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain

  1. Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
  2. Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
  3. Blightsteel Colossus12 mana
  4. Darksteel Colossus11 mana
  5. Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
  6. Emrakul, the World Anew12 mana
  7. Flayer of Loyalties10 mana
  8. It That Betrays12 mana

A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Walking Ballista0 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Mishra's Bauble0 mana
  5. Sol Talisman0 mana
  6. Tormod's Crypt0 mana
  7. Urza's Bauble0 mana
  8. Chrome Mox0 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  2. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  3. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  4. Field of the Dead0 mana
  5. Spawnbed Protector7 mana
  6. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  7. Wickersmith's Tools3 mana
  8. Spider-Slayer, Hatred Honed2 mana

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Eldritch Immunity1 mana
  2. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  3. Kozilek's Command2 mana
  4. Warping Wail2 mana
  5. Aang's Journey2 mana
  6. Energybending2 mana
  7. Environmental Sciences2 mana
  8. Spatial Contortion2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Mindcrank2 mana
  3. Codex Shredder1 mana
  4. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  5. Trenchpost0 mana
  6. Mesmeric Orb2 mana
  7. Millikin2 mana
  8. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana

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

  1. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  2. Titan's Presence3 mana
  3. Kozilek's Command2 mana
  4. Warping Wail2 mana
  5. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  6. Getaway Car3 mana
  7. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
  8. Voyager Staff1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  2. Coercive Portal4 mana
  3. Worldslayer5 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Apocalypse Chime2 mana
  6. All Is Dust7 mana
  7. Trailblazer's Torch4 mana
  8. False Floor4 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Myr Kinsmith4 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Shrine Steward5 mana
  7. Myr Turbine5 mana
  8. Self-Assembler5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. The One Ring4 mana
  3. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  4. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  5. Key to the City2 mana
  6. Mask of Memory2 mana
  7. Smuggler's Copter2 mana
  8. Tome of Legends2 mana

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