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Anax, Hardened in the Forge

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod

· Mono-Red

Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.) Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead.

Budget

Filters

No tap-lands Fetchable only Snow basics

36 lands · total $73.20 budget: $100

Composition 27 Basics 5 Fetch Lands 3 Other Nonbasic 1 Hideaway Lands (Lorwyn)

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Anax, Hardened in the Forge yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$3.29 2

Reliquary Tower

Utility: No hand size limit

$2.94

Rogue's Passage

Utility: Unblockable trick

$0.35

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$69.91 6

Other Nonbasics

$0.00 1

Forsaken Crossroads

Other nonbasic

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Basics

$2.16 27

About This Manabase

Anax, Hardened in the Forge is a Mono-Red commander with a R color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Anax, Hardened in the Forge, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Reliquary Tower, Rogue's Passage when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Bloodstained Mire, Wooded Foothills, Arid Mesa, Spinerock Knoll , plus 2 more for Anax, Hardened in the Forge's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.