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Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord

Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord

Legendary Creature — Human Villain · {2}{B} · Black commander

Villain spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever another Villain you control enters, you may have it connive. Do this only once each turn. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
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What Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord actually does

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What a Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Walking Ballista0 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Mishra's Bauble0 mana
  5. Profane Tutor0 mana
  6. Sol Talisman0 mana
  7. Tormod's Crypt0 mana
  8. Urza's Bauble0 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Red Room Recruit2 mana
  2. Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel2 mana
  3. Body Launderer4 mana
  4. Baron Helmut Zemo3 mana
  5. Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord3 mana
  6. Iron Monger, Sadistic Tycoon3 mana
  7. Mechanical Mobster3 mana
  8. Raffine's Silencer3 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer1 mana
  2. Common Crook2 mana
  3. Morlun, Devourer of Spiders2 mana
  4. A.I.M. Synthoids2 mana
  5. Agents of HYDRA2 mana
  6. Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent2 mana
  7. Boomerang, Blade Flinger2 mana
  8. Doom's Servo-Guards2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Kederekt Parasite1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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