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Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer
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Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
3WU
· WU
Whenever Ayesha Tanaka attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may put any number of artifact cards with mana value less than or equal to Ayesha Tanaka's power from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Ayesha Tanaka can't be blocked as long as defending player controls three or more artifacts.
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36 lands · total $99.67 budget: $100
W 19 U 19 C 5
Composition 20 Basics 6 Other Nonbasic 4 Fetch Lands 1 Check Lands 1 Fast Lands 1 Filter Lands 1 Pain Lands 1 Shock Lands 1 Slow Lands

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer 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

$4.15 6

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$95.52 10

Basics

$1.20 20

About This Manabase

Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer is a WU commander with a WU 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 Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer, 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 Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Path of Ancestry , and others when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Hallowed Fountain, Windswept Heath, Flooded Strand, Polluted Delta , plus 6 more for Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer'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.