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Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Legendary Creature — Salamander Serpent · {4}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander

Whenever Xolatoyac enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

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What Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood 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 Xolatoyac enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
• Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

What a Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood deck needs

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

• permanents with counters that tap — flood-countered lands, charge-counter rocks (each end step untaps them)
• haste and blink for the commander (its entry and attack place flood counters)

The Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 10× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

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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