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Homer,
the Hermit

Sultai

Small creatures. Deep waters.

Make every creature part of the census. Browse the concept build’s cards and rules.

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MEET YOUR COMMANDERHomer, the Hermit

Homer, the Hermit · Featured commander

STRATEGY · 3 PHASES

How this build plays

Homer scales landfall mill with an unusual sea-creature census. Land-placement tools supply repeated entries, type-changing support broadens the count, and graveyard land recovery restarts the tide.

01SET THE STAGE
Keep a land ready for the next tide
Walking Atlas puts a land from hand onto the battlefield. Retreat to Coralhelm can use that landfall to untap the Atlas, while Homer separately mills based on your qualifying sea creatures. You still need more lands in hand to continue this sequence.
- Homer, the Hermit
- Walking Atlas
- Retreat to Coralhelm
Rules text for these cards
Homer, the Hermit
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, any number of target players each mill X cards, where X is twice the number of Crabs, Lobsters, Nautiluses, Starfish, and/or Trilobites you control.
Walking Atlas
{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Retreat to Coralhelm
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
02BUILD THE ENGINE
Make every creature part of the census
Maskwood Nexus gives every creature you control all creature types, making them qualify for Homer’s count. Ruin Crab adds its own three-card mill for each opponent when a land enters. A creature with several of Homer’s listed types still counts as one creature, not several.
- Homer, the Hermit
- Maskwood Nexus
- Ruin Crab
Rules text for these cards
Homer, the Hermit
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, any number of target players each mill X cards, where X is twice the number of Crabs, Lobsters, Nautiluses, Starfish, and/or Trilobites you control.
Maskwood Nexus
Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)
Ruin Crab
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
03CARRY IT THROUGH
The lands can come back together
Harrow sacrifices a land to find two basics, producing two land entries for Homer. Splendid Reclamation later returns land cards from the graveyard tapped, creating a new set of landfall triggers. Landfall counts entries even though those returned lands are tapped.
- Homer, the Hermit
- Harrow
- Splendid Reclamation
Rules text for these cards
Homer, the Hermit
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, any number of target players each mill X cards, where X is twice the number of Crabs, Lobsters, Nautiluses, Starfish, and/or Trilobites you control.
Harrow
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Splendid Reclamation
Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

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Homer, the Hermit

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, any number of target players each mill X cards, where X is twice the number of Crabs, Lobsters, Nautiluses, Starfish, and/or Trilobites you control.

Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Iceberg Cancrix

Whenever another snow permanent you control enters, you may have target player mill two cards.

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost {2} more to cast. {3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Mirelurk Queen

Vigilance When this creature enters, target player gets two rad counters. Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Eddymurk Crab

Flash This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. This creature enters tapped if it's not your turn. When this creature enters, tap up to two target creatures.

Shorecomber Crab

Rules text is not available for this card.

Horseshoe Crab

{U}: Untap this creature.

Shambleshark

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Sigiled Starfish

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Sinister Starfish

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Spiny Starfish

{U}: Regenerate this creature. At the beginning of each end step, if this creature regenerated this turn, create a 0/1 blue Starfish creature token for each time it regenerated this turn.

Cryptic Trilobite

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities. {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Chambered Nautilus

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw a card.

Rikala, Homarid King

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a tide counter on Rikala. Then if there are four or more tide counters on Rikala, remove them. Creatures you control get +1/+0 for each tide counter on Rikala. Whenever you tap an Island for mana, if there are three or more tide counters on Rikala, add an additional {U}.

Viscerid Deepwalker

{U}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {U} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Scuttletide

{1}, Discard a card: Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token. Delirium — Crabs you control get +1/+1 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Hard Evidence

Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Arcane Adaptation

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Kindred Discovery

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Ramunap Excavator

You may play lands from your graveyard.

World Shaper

Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards. When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sakura-Tribe Scout

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Walking Atlas

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Flying {1}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.

Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Trade Routes

{1}: Return target land you control to its owner's hand. {1}, Discard a land card: Draw a card.

Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Summer Bloom

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Roiling Regrowth

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Springbloom Druid

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Perpetual Timepiece

{T}: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) {2}, Exile this artifact: Shuffle any number of target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Zuran Orb

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Squandered Resources

Sacrifice a land: Add one mana of any type the sacrificed land could produce.

Sylvan Safekeeper

Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Lazav, the Multifarious

When Lazav enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {X}: Lazav becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.

The Mimeoplasm

As The Mimeoplasm enters, you may exile two creature cards from graveyards. If you do, it enters as a copy of one of those cards with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the power of the other card.

Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. {G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. {2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Bedrock Tortoise

During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof. Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Commander

1 card

1×Homer, the HermitLegendary Creature — Crab Druid · Printing not specified

Creature

33 cards

Enchantment

8 cards

1×ScuttletideEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Arcane AdaptationEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Kindred DiscoveryEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Retreat to CoralhelmEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Trade RoutesEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×ExplorationEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Squandered ResourcesEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Assault FormationEnchantment · Printing not specified

Sorcery

9 cards

1×Hard EvidenceSorcery · Printing not specified 1×ExploreSorcery · Printing not specified 1×Summer BloomSorcery · Printing not specified 1×CultivateSorcery · Printing not specified 1×Kodama's ReachSorcery — Arcane · Printing not specified 1×Nature's LoreSorcery · Printing not specified 1×Three VisitsSorcery · Printing not specified 1×Splendid ReclamationSorcery · Printing not specified 1×Life from the LoamSorcery · Printing not specified

Artifact

6 cards

1×Maskwood NexusArtifact · Printing not specified 1×Perpetual TimepieceArtifact · Printing not specified 1×Soul-Guide LanternArtifact · Printing not specified 1×Arcane SignetArtifact · Printing not specified 1×Sol RingArtifact · Printing not specified 1×Zuran OrbArtifact · Printing not specified

Instant

6 cards

1×Growth SpiralInstant · Printing not specified 1×HarrowInstant · Printing not specified 1×Roiling RegrowthInstant · Printing not specified 1×Reality ShiftInstant · Printing not specified 1×Beast WithinInstant · Printing not specified 1×PongifyInstant · Printing not specified

Land

37 cards

PREGAME CONVERSATION · Planned

Commander Bracket Assessment

Rules-Based Bracket: No raised minimumEstimated Power Bracket: Mid 3–High 3

Based on the 100-card main deck; sideboard excluded. The Rules-Based Bracket is the lowest bracket this card list allows under Commander bracket rules. The Estimated Power Bracket is a personal estimate of how strongly the deck plays. It is not an official rating.

Evidence and limitations

Rules-Based Bracket · minimum

No raised minimum found in the checked restrictions. This does not establish Exhibition intent, Core fit or absence of every possible combo.

Exact Game Changers: None.

Mass land denial registry: None identified in the checked registry. Modal or repeated-land targeting still requires a pregame discussion.

Your extra-turn cards: None identified in the checked registry. Opponent turns from Emrakul or gifts are not counted as your own chain.

Confirmed early two-card lethal or turn-chain flags are not inferred from keywords. This is a lower bound, not a complete combo solver or permission to delay a consistently early line until turn seven. Agreed Rule Zero / Exhibition exceptions are outside this ordinary-restriction check.

Estimated Power Bracket · Mid 3–High 3

Estimated from the card list alone, not from tracked win rates or game results.

Land placement, type conversion and recovery build repeated mill events. Ordinary land ramp is plentiful, but it does not universally tutor the nonland pieces.

Assembly and timing: A land placer, untap source, hand/land supply and qualifying creature count are additional requirements. No cheap two-card game-ending pair is inferred from the shared landfall text.

Recovery and constraints: Land recovery can restart mill after spending resources, while graveyard hate and removing the commander or creature census can cut its output.

Curve: 2.71 average nonland mana value. Cheap mana/land-search text: Cryptic Trilobite · Lotus Cobra · Nature's Lore · Three Visits · Arcane Signet · Sol Ring · Squandered Resources. This text-derived reading aid is not an official score.

Search-library evidence: Cultivate · Kodama's Reach · Nature's Lore · Three Visits · Harrow · Roiling Regrowth · Springbloom Druid. This includes restricted and land searches; efficient tutor overlap is reviewed separately above. There is no official tutor-count cap.

Fast mana indicators: Sol Ring. Conditional free interaction: None identified in the checked registry. Conditions and resource costs still apply.

Key cards: Homer, the Hermit · Maskwood Nexus · Retreat to Coralhelm · Splendid Reclamation.

Official sources checked 2026-10-31; criteria update 2025-10-21, Game Changers update 2026-02-09. Method and official source links. Brackets 4 and 5 share structural freedom; competitive intent cannot be inferred from these counts.