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The Warring Triad

The Warring Triad

Legendary Artifact Creature — God · {3} · Colorless commander

Flying, trample, haste As long as there are fewer than eight cards in your graveyard, The Warring Triad isn't a creature. {T}, Mill a card: Target player adds one mana of any color. (Activate only as an instant.)
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What The Warring Triad 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 Warring Triad deck needs

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

The The Warring Triad deck plan

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

Best cards for The Warring Triad

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 your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  2. Sequestered Stash0 mana
  3. Excavated Wall1 mana
  4. Shard of Broken Glass1 mana
  5. Wand of Vertebrae1 mana
  6. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  7. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  8. Millikin2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Eldritch Immunity1 mana
  2. Manhole Cover2 mana
  3. Not of This World7 mana
  4. Plaza of Heroes0 mana
  5. Tower of the Magistrate0 mana
  6. Smoke Bomb3 mana
  7. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  8. Glaring Spotlight1 mana

Get your board back after a wipe

  1. Grimoire of the Dead4 mana
  2. Resurrection Orb2 mana
  3. Nim Deathmantle2 mana
  4. Scythe of the Wretched2 mana
  5. Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho3 mana
  6. Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine3 mana
  7. Heart-Shaped Herb4 mana
  8. Shuri's Fabricator4 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Super-Adaptoid2 mana
  2. Embermouth Sentinel2 mana
  3. Cartographer's Companion3 mana
  4. Searchlight Companion3 mana
  5. Dutiful Replicator3 mana
  6. Skyscanner3 mana
  7. Clockwork Servant3 mana
  8. News Helicopter3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  2. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  3. Sword of the Paruns4 mana
  4. Genji Glove5 mana
  5. The Moment2 mana
  6. Magewright's Stone2 mana
  7. Jandor's Saddlebags2 mana
  8. Lapis Lazuli Talisman2 mana

Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards

  1. Villainous Hideout0 mana
  2. Fomori Vault0 mana
  3. Avishkar Raceway0 mana
  4. Bazaar of Baghdad0 mana
  5. Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
  6. Key to the Side-Door1 mana
  7. Currency Converter1 mana
  8. Bag of Holding1 mana

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

  1. Titan's Presence3 mana
  2. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  3. Retributive Wand3 mana
  4. Invasion of Ravnica // Guildpact Paragon5 mana
  5. Introduction to Annihilation5 mana
  6. Culling Scales3 mana
  7. Bladegriff Prototype5 mana
  8. Clay Golem4 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  2. Shrine Steward5 mana
  3. Self-Assembler5 mana
  4. Pyre of Heroes2 mana
  5. Tamiyo's Journal5 mana
  6. Conduit of Ruin6 mana
  7. Citanul Flute5 mana
  8. Kuldotha Forgemaster5 mana

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