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Tom Bombadil

Tom Bombadil

Legendary Creature — God Bard · {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander

As long as there are four or more lore counters among Sagas you control, Tom Bombadil has hexproof and indestructible. Whenever the final chapter ability of a Saga you control resolves, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a Saga card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn.
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What Tom Bombadil 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 Tom Bombadil deck needs

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

The Tom Bombadil deck plan

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

Best cards for Tom Bombadil

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.

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  3. Cleric Class1 mana
  4. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  5. Enduring Vitality3 mana
  6. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  7. Mirror Entity3 mana
  8. Oketra's Monument3 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Path to Exile1 mana
  3. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  4. Reality Shift2 mana
  5. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  6. Pongify1 mana
  7. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  8. Resculpt2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Neoform2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  6. Wrath of God4 mana
  7. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  8. Chain Reaction4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  4. Skullclamp1 mana
  5. Sylvan Library2 mana
  6. Curiosity1 mana
  7. Wizard Class1 mana
  8. Black Market Connections3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  5. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  6. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  7. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  8. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Boros Signet2 mana
  4. Dimir Signet2 mana
  5. Izzet Signet2 mana
  6. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  7. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  8. Golgari Signet2 mana

Combos with Tom Bombadil

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Tom Bombadil is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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