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Keruga, the Macrosage
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Keruga, the Macrosage

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Hippo
3GUGU
· UG
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.
Budget
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36 lands · total $88.30 budget: $100
U 19 G 19 C 5
Composition 20 Basics 6 Other Nonbasic 4 Fetch Lands 1 Bond Lands 1 Check Lands 1 Filter Lands 1 Horizon Lands 1 Pain Lands 1 Shock Lands

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Keruga, the Macrosage 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

$84.15 10

Basics

$1.20 20

About This Manabase

Keruga, the Macrosage is a UG commander with a UG 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 Keruga, the Macrosage, 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 Breeding Pool, Windswept Heath, Flooded Strand, Wooded Foothills , plus 6 more for Keruga, the Macrosage'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.