Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
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Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar

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The Commander

Reach, trample

Multani gets +1/+1 for each land you control and each land card in your graveyard.

{1}{G}, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Guide

Gameplan

Multani is a mono-green Voltron beater whose power scales with lands in play and in the graveyard, easily reaching 20+ and threatening commander-damage kills. You ramp hard, fill the yard with lands via mill or fetch effects, then swing with trample to crush opponents while abusing the cheap graveyard recursion to dodge removal. Land-based ramp doubles as your defense and your damage.

Strengths

  • Recurs itself from the graveyard for {1}{G}, making it extremely resilient to removal and board wipes
  • Reach and trample make it both a strong blocker and an unblockable-style finisher
  • Scales enormously with lands, often becoming the biggest creature on the board for free
  • Mono-green keeps mana consistent and supports flood-the-yard land synergies
  • Cheap commander cost relative to its size; ramp pays for itself

Weaknesses

  • Single-color means limited interaction—no counterspells, little spot removal, weak against control
  • One well-timed exile effect (Swords, Path, Anguished Unmaking) ignores the recursion
  • Voltron strategy paints a target and is vulnerable to multiplayer politics and chump blockers without evasion support
  • Edict and -X/-X effects bypass its toughness-based defense
  • Relies on landfall/land count, so land destruction or Stax hurts disproportionately

Key Cards

  • Crucible of WorldsLets you replay lands sacrificed for value and fuels Multani's self-return while keeping land count high.
  • Splendid ReclamationReturns all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, spiking Multani's size and triggering landfall.
  • Ramunap ExcavatorA creature Crucible that turns fetchlands and sac lands into repeatable graveyard fuel.
  • Rampant GrowthCheap ramp that grows Multani while accelerating your land count for bigger swings.
  • World ShaperOn death, returns all lands from your graveyard to play, supercharging Multani's power and landfall.
  • RancorRecurring trample/+2/+0 that adds evasion-supporting punch and comes back when it dies.

Upgrade Path

Lean into land recursion and ramp engines like Crucible of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator, and Splendid Reclamation to maximize size and resilience. Add evasion and protection—Lightning Greaves, Whispersilk Cloak, Snakeskin Veil, and trample doublers like Berserk or Rampaging Baloths—to ensure swings connect and survive removal. Tighten the mana with fast green rocks (Sol Ring, Three Visits, Nature's Lore) so you reach lethal Multani turns sooner.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

  • Connecting with a massive Multani for lethal commander damage via trample
  • Doubling power with Doubling Season-style or trample-enabler combat tricks for a one-shot
  • Overwhelming the board with oversized green creatures and trample after ramping ahead
  • Repeated Multani recursion grinding opponents out through removal-heavy games

Archetypes

  • VoltronMultani naturally becomes a giant trampler that one-shots opponents with commander damage.
  • LandsSelf-mill, fetchlands, and recursion grow Multani while abusing landfall and land recursion engines.
  • Ramp/StompyMono-green ramp pours lands onto the board, simultaneously growing the commander and casting fat threats.

Combos

No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.

Related Commanders

Same color identity (G), by popularity.

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