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Guru Pathik
Legendary Creature — Human Monk Ally
When Guru Pathik enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Lesson, Saga, or Shrine card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Whenever you cast a Lesson, Saga, or Shrine spell, put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
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“Tutor Lessons, Sagas, and Shrines while pumping creatures into the red zone.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Enchantments, Tokens, Counters, Ramp
Strategy
Guru Pathik is your ticket to assembling a deck around Lessons, Sagas, and Shrines—three enchantment types that rarely get the spotlight. Your commander smooths your draws while providing incremental value: tutoring key pieces to hand and building up your team with +1/+1 counters. The deck plays like a midrange engine, using these enchantment effects to generate advantages while your creatures grow bigger over time.
The real power here is redundancy and utility. Lessons scale from cantrips to tutors depending on what you need, Sagas offer repeatable effects or powerful finishes, and Shrines give you passive mana or combat boosts. You're not trying to one-shot anyone—instead, you're grinding value, growing threats, and letting your enchantments do the heavy lifting. Every spell you cast pumps a team member, so even small plays add up. The deck thrives on card advantage and synergy rather than raw power.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey Saga reprints like Escape Velocity and lean into commons/uncommons: Binding the Old Gods, Fabled Passage, and Abundant Harvest do heavy lifting on a budget.
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Boomerang Basics
Inclusion = % of Guru Pathik decks running this card. +lift = percentage-point boost over the format average.
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