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Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder // Casal, Pathbreaker Owlbear

Legendary Creature — Tiefling Druid // Legendary Creature — Bird Bear · {3}{G} · Green commander

Vigilance When Casal enters, search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Whenever Casal attacks, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, transform her. Vigilance, trample When this creature transforms into Casal, Pathbreaker Owlbear, other legendary creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, transform Casal.

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What Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder // Casal, Pathbreaker Owlbear actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Casal enters, search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Casal attacks, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, transform her.
• Triggered ability · otherWhen this creature transforms into Casal, Pathbreaker Owlbear, other legendary creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.
• Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, transform Casal.
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance
• Keyword · trampletrample

What a Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder // Casal, Pathbreaker Owlbear deck needs

Plays as legends. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• legendary creatures (its flip gives them +2/+2 and trample)
• Forests

The Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder // Casal, Pathbreaker Owlbear deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 4× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder // Casal, Pathbreaker Owlbear

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