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Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler

Legendary Creature — Elf Druid // Legendary Creature — Elf Warlock · {2}{G} · Black/Green commander

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Trystan, Callous Cultivator, mill three cards. Then if there is an Elf card in your graveyard, you gain 2 life. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Trystan. Deathtouch Whenever this creature transforms into Trystan, Penitent Culler, mill three cards, then you may exile an Elf card from your graveyard. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {G}. If you do, transform Trystan.

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What Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler 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 · etbWhenever this creature enters or transforms into Trystan, Callous Cultivator, mill three cards. Then if there is an Elf card in your graveyard, you gain 2 life.
• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Trystan.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever this creature transforms into Trystan, Penitent Culler, mill three cards, then you may exile an Elf card from your graveyard. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life.
• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {G}. If you do, transform Trystan.
• Keyword · transformtransform
• Keyword · millmill
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch

What a Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
• 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
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 7× Refill your hand

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