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Treebeard, Gracious Host
Legendary Creature — Treefolk · {2}{G}{W} · Green/White commander
Trample, ward {2}
When Treebeard enters, create two Food tokens.
Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on target Halfling or Treefolk.
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What Treebeard, Gracious Host 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 Treebeard enters, create two Food tokens.
- Triggered ability · lifegainWhenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on target Halfling or Treefolk.
- Keyword · trampletrample
- Keyword · wardward
What a Treebeard, Gracious Host deck needs
Plays as halfling typal. 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)
- repeatable lifegain — lifelink, gain-life triggers and Food (every life gained is its trigger)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- halfling/treefolk creatures (its text counts them)
The Treebeard, Gracious Host 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
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 16× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 14× 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
Best cards for Treebeard, Gracious Host
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
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Emiel the Blessed4 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Delighted Halfling1 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Farmer Cotton2 mana
- Prosperous Innkeeper2 mana
- Samwise Gamgee2 mana
- Faeburrow Elder3 mana
- Peregrin Took3 mana
- Six3 mana
Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Zuran Orb0 mana
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Gilded Goose1 mana
- Haywire Mite1 mana
- Serra Ascendant1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Conclave Mentor2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Combos with Treebeard, Gracious Host
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Treebeard, Gracious Host is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Treebeard, Gracious Host + Scurry Oak + Essence Warden2,482 decks
- Treebeard, Gracious Host + Scurry Oak + Prosperous Innkeeper2,326 decks
- Treebeard, Gracious Host + Peregrin Took + Scurry Oak + Prize Pig + Sam, Loyal Attendant1,691 decks
- Treebeard, Gracious Host + Scurry Oak + Soul Warden1,590 decks
- Treebeard, Gracious Host + Scurry Oak + Soul's Attendant1,241 decks
- Treebeard, Gracious Host + Scurry Oak + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice738 decks
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