CommanderTestLabor DE
Price
€397.16of €400.00
Overall win rate
28%11 wins in 40 scored games
Games
40played in 4 tournaments
Rank
22in the rankings up to €400 · Elo 1553 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 36 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
2of at most 3 allowed
Combos
4complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

AI note: the Forge AI can't play 9 cards of this deck (replaced with similar cards in the Forge games) and plays 4 more only partially well. This result is therefore somewhat less meaningful. Affected cards

At most €400 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (23)

Instants (10)

Sorceries (9)

Artifacts (13)

Enchantments (8)

Lands (36)

Atla Palani, Nest Tender
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (4)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + … → Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB, Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
    11 versions, each with one of: Maskwood Nexus · Life Finds a Way · Ashnod's Altar · Goblin Bombardment · Phyrexian Altar · Blasting Station and 2 more
  • Goblin Bombardment + Rhythm of the Wild → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
    Example – 9 versions with these cards: Rhythm of the Wild · Polyraptor · Goblin Bombardment · Blasting Station · Marauding Raptor · Warstorm Surge · Ashnod's Altar · Phyrexian Altar and 1 more
  • Apex Altisaur + Wrathful Raptors + … → Destroy all creatures opponents control, Near-infinite damage
    2 versions, each with one of: Heroic Intervention · Rootborn Defenses
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Mirror Entity + Worldspine Wurm → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB

Commander Spellbook lists 23 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

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  • Polyraptor + Marauding Raptor → Draw the game, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB
  • Apex Altisaur + Wrathful Raptors + Heroic Intervention → Destroy all creatures opponents control, Near-infinite damage
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Ashnod's Altar + Maskwood Nexus → Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB, Near-infinite colorless mana
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Goblin Bombardment + Maskwood Nexus → Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB, Near-infinite damage
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Thornbite Staff + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Polyraptor + Warstorm Surge → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Phyrexian Altar + Maskwood Nexus → Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB, Near-infinite colored mana
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way + Ashnod's Altar → Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
  • Polyraptor + Goblin Bombardment → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Mirror Entity + Worldspine Wurm → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way + Goblin Bombardment → Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Blasting Station + Maskwood Nexus → Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB, Near-infinite damage
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Altar of Dementia + Maskwood Nexus → Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB, Near-infinite death triggers
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way + Phyrexian Altar → Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
  • Polyraptor + Blasting Station → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way + Blasting Station → Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
  • Apex Altisaur + Wrathful Raptors + Rootborn Defenses → Destroy all creatures opponents control, Near-infinite damage
  • Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way + Altar of Dementia → Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
  • Goblin Bombardment + Rhythm of the Wild → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite damage
  • Ashnod's Altar + Rhythm of the Wild → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite colorless mana
  • Phyrexian Altar + Rhythm of the Wild → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite colored mana
  • Altar of Dementia + Rhythm of the Wild → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Blasting Station + Rhythm of the Wild → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite damage

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Altar of Dementia: AI can't play it
  • Beast Within: AI can't play it
  • Blasting Station: AI can't play it
  • Culling Dais: AI can't play it
  • Enlightened Tutor: AI plays it poorly
  • Fanatical Devotion: AI can't play it
  • Goblin Bombardment: AI can't play it
  • Gruul Signet: AI can't play it
  • Marauding Raptor: AI can't play it
  • Mirror Entity: AI can't play it
  • Polyraptor: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth: AI plays it poorly
Played instead in the tournament
  • Akroma's Will: replacement
  • Birds of Paradise: replacement
  • Dragon Egg: replacement
  • Druid's Deliverance: replacement
  • Fellwar Stone: replacement
  • Gisela, Blade of Goldnight: replacement
  • Quartzwood Crasher: replacement
  • Reliquary Tower: replacement
  • Temple Altisaur: test
  • Terastodon: replacement
  • Vaultborn Tyrant: replacement
  • Worldly Tutor: replacement

What the games show

From 40 analysed games in 4 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 88% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Often wins by combo: in 4 of 11 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication
  • Stable mana: fewer than 3 lands after turn 3 in only 5% of games (all-deck avg: 10%) logged (2 of 40 games)

Weaknesses

  • Often eliminated first: in 32% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (13 of 40 games)
  • Vulnerable to direct damage: only 48% of losses to combat, the rest to spells, drain or abilities (all-deck avg: 61% combat) logged (14 of 29 losses)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 40 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Dinosaur Beast Token avg 3.0hit in 4 of 40 games
  2. Gisela, Blade of Goldnight avg 2.7hit in 4 of 40 games
  3. Ghalta and Mavren avg 2.5hit in 5 of 40 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Dinosaur Beast Token avg 29.5hit in 4 of 40 games
  2. Gisela, Blade of Goldnight avg 27.0hit in 4 of 40 games
  3. Zetalpa, Primal Dawn avg 21.2hit in 4 of 40 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Dragon Token 4×40 games in deck
  2. Ghalta, Primal Hunger 3×40 games in deck
  3. Zetalpa, Primal Dawn 3×40 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Austere Command 18×avg 0.5 per game · 40 games in deck
  2. Path to Exile 9×avg 0.2 per game · 40 games in deck
  3. Terastodon 9×avg 0.2 per game · 40 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 25% of 323 attackers blocked in total, 11% of those by flyers or reach

Not enough blocks logged yet.

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Polyraptor 0%cast in 0 of 10 games
  2. Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 0%cast in 0 of 40 games
  3. Worldspine Wurm 2%cast in 1 of 40 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 11 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–918%
  • turns 10–1136%
  • turns 12–1318%
  • turn 14+27%

Combos in play logged Polyraptor + Marauding Raptor: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Apex Altisaur + Wrathful Raptors + Heroic Intervention: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Ashnod's Altar + Maskwood Nexus: all pieces cast in 1 games, 0 won · Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Goblin Bombardment + Maskwood Nexus: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 4.08

0
5
1
18
2
15
3
2
4
6
5
5
6
12
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
9 / 9
Card draw
6 / 6
Removal
9 / 9
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
5 / 5
Strategy
32 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 63 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
23
Instants
10
Sorceries
9
Artifacts
13
Enchantments
8
Lands
36

Most expensive cards

Phyrexian Altar
€35.94
Arid Mesa
€26.67
Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
€26.46
Enlightened Tutor
€25.57
Etali, Primal Conqueror
€21.93
Wooded Foothills
€16.85
Jetmir's Garden
€14.02
Polyraptor
€12.59

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

No swap has enough games for a verdict yet.

4 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €397.16 Cardmarket average as of Oct 29, 2026

Open Cardmarket Wants

Prices without shipping. Individual cards may have become cheaper or more expensive on Cardmarket.

Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 14 · average place 26.8 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 4 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?