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Tourach, Dread Cantor

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric · {1}{B} · Black commander

Kicker {B}{B} (You may pay an additional {B}{B} as you cast this spell.) Protection from white Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach. When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

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What Tourach, Dread Cantor 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 · discardWhenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach.
• Triggered ability · etbWhen Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.
• Keyword · kickerkicker

What a Tourach, Dread Cantor deck needs

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

• ways to return the commander to your hand and recast it (its enter trigger fires only when it was cast — blink does nothing)
• cards that make opponents discard (its payoff is their discards)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Tourach, Dread Cantor deck plan

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

• 19× Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
• 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Tourach, Dread Cantor

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.

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