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Tormod, the Desecrator
Legendary Creature — Zombie Wizard · {3}{B} · Black commander
What Tormod, the Desecrator 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 · otherWhenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
- Keyword · partnerpartner
What a Tormod, the Desecrator deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
- cards leaving your graveyard — flashback, escape, delve and reanimation (each one triggers it)
The Tormod, the Desecrator deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 11× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 14× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 6× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Tormod, the Desecrator
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 spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- Gravecrawler1 mana
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Hidden Necropolis0 mana
- Lotus Bloom0 mana
- Mox Tantalite0 mana
- Woe Strider3 mana
- Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid0 mana
- Profane Tutor0 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
- Grave Titan6 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Spawnbed Protector7 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Cemetery Reaper3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Undead Warchief4 mana
- Caged Sun6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Heroes' Podium5 mana
- Endurance Bobblehead3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Combos with Tormod, the Desecrator
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Tormod, the Desecrator is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Tormod, the Desecrator + Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar2,604 decks
- Tormod, the Desecrator + Phyrexian Altar + Reassembling Skeleton1,944 decks
- Tormod, the Desecrator + Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar750 decks
- Tormod, the Desecrator + Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer627 decks
- Tormod, the Desecrator + Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar602 decks
- Tormod, the Desecrator + Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Altar Of Dementia562 decks
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