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Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
Legendary Creature — Skeleton Horror · {3}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander
Vigilance, menace
Descend 8 — {4}{U}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard and only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
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What Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated abilityDescend 8 — {4}{U}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyar
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
- Keyword · descenddescend
- Keyword · menacemenace
What an Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 5× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 17× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 10× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- 7× 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
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
Best cards for Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
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.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Secret Tunnel0 mana
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
- Irenicus's Vile Duplication4 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
- Thassa, God of the Sea3 mana
- Galerider Sliver1 mana
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Mothdust Changeling1 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- The Ancient One2 mana
- Echo of Dusk2 mana
- Stinging Cave Crawler3 mana
- Starving Revenant4 mana
- Frilled Cave-Wurm4 mana
- Didact Echo5 mana
- Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake5 mana
- Council of Echoes6 mana
Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Dark Ritual1 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Culling the Weak1 mana
- Dimir Signet2 mana
- Mind Stone2 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Brain Freeze2 mana
- Mindcrank2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Codex Shredder1 mana
- Hedron Crab1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Suspend1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Do or Die2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Displacement Wave2 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Innocent Blood1 mana
- Coils of the Medusa2 mana
- Forced March3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- Counterspell2 mana
- Three Steps Ahead1 mana
- Long River's Pull2 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Abjure1 mana
- Archmage's Charm3 mana
- Cancel3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Lively Dirge2 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana