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Thor, God of Thunder
Legendary Creature — God Warrior Hero · {3}{R}{R} · Red commander
Flying
When Thor enters, exile target Equipment, instant, or sorcery card from your graveyard. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Thor deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.
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What Thor, God of Thunder 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 · etbWhen Thor enters, exile target Equipment, instant, or sorcery card from your graveyard. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
- Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a noncreature spell, Thor deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Thor, God of Thunder deck needs
Plays as noncreature cast trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- noncreature spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
The Thor, God of Thunder deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
Best cards for Thor, God of Thunder
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
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana
- Frontier Warmonger4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Dire Fleet Daredevil2 mana
- Fear of Missing Out2 mana
- Goblin Engineer2 mana
- Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak5 mana
- Voldaren Epicure1 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
- Sequestered Stash0 mana
- Excavated Wall1 mana
- Wand of Vertebrae1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Goblin Engineer2 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
- Hoarding Dragon5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Combos with Thor, God of Thunder
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Thor, God of Thunder is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Thor, God of Thunder + Time Warp + The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster38 decks
- Thor, God of Thunder + Time Warp + The Mind Stone34 decks
- Thor, God of Thunder + Temporal Manipulation + The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster8 decks
- Thor, God of Thunder + Temporal Manipulation + The Mind Stone6 decks
- Thor, God of Thunder + Temporal Manipulation + Teleportation Circle3 decks
- Thor, God of Thunder + Thassa, Deep-Dwelling + Time Warp3 decks