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Bortuk Bonerattle

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Bortuk Bonerattle

Legendary Creature — Troll Shaman

Bortuk Bonerattle wants a deck that brings big creatures back from the discard pile. It also works in a deck built around Shaman or Trolls.

Mana cost
Black, Green ()
Power / toughness4 / 4
RarityUncommon

Domain — When Bortuk Bonerattle enters, if you cast it, choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card to the battlefield if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

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Archetypes: Reanimator
Themes: Shaman
Trolls
Tags: ETB Value
Reanimation
Recursion

Cards That Fit Bortuk Bonerattle

Picked for what they do in Bortuk Bonerattle's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Bortuk Bonerattle's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name. Sol Ring Open the full glossary

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The 6 Cards

Dregscape Sliver 2 mana · shares ,
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree 3 mana · shares ,
Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz 2 mana · shares
Animist's Awakening 1 mana · shares ,
Scavenger's Talent 1 mana · shares ,
Ghost Ark 4 mana · shares ,

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The 6 Cards

Cauldron Familiar 1 mana · shares ,
Haunt of the Dead Marshes 1 mana · shares ,
Purple Pentapus 1 mana · shares ,
Grave Researcher // Reanimate 3 mana · shares ,
Dance of the Dead 2 mana · shares ,
Grafted Butcher 2 mana · shares ,

Rulings for Bortuk Bonerattle

explain how Bortuk Bonerattle works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 9 Sep 2022

Domain abilities count the number of basic land types among lands you control, not how many lands you control or how many of any type.

Wizards of the Coast 9 Sep 2022

The basic land types are Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest. Land types other than basic land types (such as Desert) don’t contribute to domain abilities.

2 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Bortuk Bonerattle, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryBGPlayers write colors as letters: B for black, G for green.ReanimatorReanimator decks put big creatures into their own graveyard early, then bring them back onto the battlefield without paying their cost. It gets a huge creature into play far sooner than you could afford to cast it.Open the Reanimator pageReanimationReturns a creature card from a graveyard straight to the battlefield, skipping its mana cost. That is why decks built around it put their biggest creatures into the graveyard on purpose. Named for Reanimate. Animate DeadOpen the Reanimation pageRecursionBrings cards back from the graveyard: to your hand, to the battlefield, or letting them be cast again from where they lie. Eternal Witness, Reanimate, VictimizeOpen the Recursion page