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Ultima, Origin of Oblivion

Legendary Creature — God · {5} · Colorless commander

Flying Whenever Ultima attacks, put a blight counter on target land. For as long as that land has a blight counter on it, it loses all land types and abilities and has "{T}: Add {C}." Whenever you tap a land for {C}, add an additional {C}.

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What Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 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 · attackWhenever Ultima attacks, put a blight counter on target land. For as long as that land has a blight counter on it, it loses all land types and abilities and has "{T}: Add {C}."
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever you tap a land for {C}, add an additional {C}.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What an Ultima, Origin of Oblivion deck needs

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

• colorless spells and Eldrazi (the extra mana is {C})
• land ramp — every land tapped for {C} makes two
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander (each attack blights a land into a {C} land)

The Ultima, Origin of Oblivion deck plan

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

• 11× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 9× Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
• 6× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion

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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