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Tatsunari, Toad Rider
UBGSultaiLegendary Creature — Human Ninja

Tatsunari, Toad Rider

Mana value3Rank#11,675
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The Commander

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, if you don't control a creature named Keimi, create Keimi, a legendary 3/3 black and green Frog creature token with "Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life."

{1}{G/U}: Tatsunari and target Frog you control can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with flying or reach.

Guide

Gameplan

Cast enchantments to spawn Keimi, your engine token, then chain more enchantments to drain the table while building card advantage off enchantress effects. You can pivot to commander-damage beats by making Keimi or Tatsunari unblockable and loading up on auras/buffs, or grind opponents out with value enchantments and incremental drain. Most turns you're deploying cheap enchantments that each tick down life totals and refill your hand.

Strengths

  • Free, repeatable drain via Keimi every time you cast an enchantment
  • Strong card advantage when paired with enchantress-style draw engines
  • Built-in evasion to push Keimi or Tatsunari as a Voltron beater
  • Sultai colors give access to ramp, removal, recursion, and counterspells
  • Resilient: many threats are enchantments that dodge creature-centric removal

Weaknesses

  • Keimi is fragile and a magnet for removal; without it the drain stops
  • Enchantment removal and disenchant effects undercut the whole strategy
  • Slow to assemble engines compared to dedicated combo decks
  • Drain damage is incremental and can be outpaced by faster boards
  • Three colors can create early mana inconsistency

Key Cards

  • Enchantress's Presence — Draws a card off every enchantment you cast, fueling the chain that triggers Keimi's drain.
  • Eidolon of Blossoms — A second enchantress effect that turns each enchantment into a card and a drain trigger.
  • Setessan Champion — Draws and grows with each enchantment cast, snowballing alongside Keimi.
  • Sythis, Harvest's Hand — Repeatable card and life advantage that synergizes perfectly with the enchantment-heavy build.
  • Doubling Season — Doesn't double Keimi but supercharges token and counter-based enchantment payoffs in the deck.
  • Sterling Grove — Protects your enchantments (including Keimi-adjacent pieces) and tutors for key enchantments.
  • Greater Auramancy — Shields your enchantments and aura-loaded threats from targeted removal.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and enchantment tutors (Idyllic Tutor, Enlightened Tutor, Plea for Power) to assemble engines faster, and lean into ways to copy or recur enchantments. Protect Keimi with hexproof/indestructible enablers and consider Strionic Resonator or cost reducers like Herald of the Pantheon to push multiple triggers per turn. For the highest power, build toward an enchantment-fueled engine that can produce free spells (e.g., cheap enchantments plus draw) to loop drain triggers and close games quickly.

Core Cards

The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.

Win Conditions

  • ▸Incremental Keimi drain across the table as you chain enchantments
  • ▸Commander/Frog combat damage made unblockable and pumped with auras
  • ▸Big enchantress card advantage overwhelming opponents into a finisher
  • ▸Enchantment-based combos or X-spell payoffs once your engine is online

Archetypes

  • Enchantress — Tatsunari rewards casting enchantments with a recurring drain payoff that pairs with classic draw engines.
  • Aristocrats/Drain — Keimi's life-loss trigger turns every enchantment spell into reach toward a death-by-a-thousand-cuts win.
  • Voltron — Tatsunari's unblockable ability and aura support let Keimi or the commander close via combat damage.
  • Value Control — Sultai removal, counters, and enchantment-based card advantage let you grind the table out.

Combos

  • Tatsunari, Toad Rider + Phyrexian Altar + Pitiless Plunderer + Whip Silk

    → Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB

  • Tatsunari, Toad Rider + Gatherer of Graces + Rancor + Phyrexian Altar

    → Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB

  • Tatsunari, Toad Rider + Chthonian Nightmare + Priest of Gix + Phyrexian Altar

    → Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite colored mana

  • Tatsunari, Toad Rider + Carnival of Souls + Cloudstone Curio + Dockside Chef + Hateful Eidolon

    → Infinite ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss

  • Tatsunari, Toad Rider + Carnival of Souls + Cloudstone Curio + Dockside Chef + Gnarled Scarhide

    → Infinite ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss

Combos via Commander Spellbook.

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