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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

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

What a The Dawning Archaic deck needs

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

The The Dawning Archaic deck plan

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

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

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

  1. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  2. Kozilek's Command2 mana
  3. Warping Wail2 mana
  4. Aang's Journey2 mana
  5. Energybending2 mana
  6. Environmental Sciences2 mana
  7. Spatial Contortion2 mana
  8. Introduction to Prophecy3 mana

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

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  3. Shadowspear1 mana
  4. Bilbo's Ring3 mana
  5. Cliffhaven Kitesail1 mana
  6. Zephyr Boots1 mana
  7. Wings of Hubris2 mana
  8. Cloak of the Bat2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  2. Millikin2 mana
  3. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  4. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  5. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  6. Sequestered Stash0 mana
  7. Excavated Wall1 mana
  8. Wand of Vertebrae1 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. Zuko's Exile5 mana
  7. Clay Golem4 mana
  8. Lazotep Quarry0 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  2. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  3. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  4. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  5. Shrine Steward5 mana
  6. Self-Assembler5 mana
  7. Pyre of Heroes2 mana
  8. Tamiyo's Journal5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  3. Karn's Sylex3 mana
  4. Calamity of the Titans6 mana
  5. Apocalypse Chime2 mana
  6. The Moment2 mana
  7. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  8. Coercive Portal4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. The One Ring4 mana
  3. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  4. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
  5. Key to the City2 mana
  6. Mask of Memory2 mana
  7. Tome of Legends2 mana
  8. Buster Sword3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

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