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Clara Oswald
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · {6} · Colorless commander
What Clara Oswald actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · trigger_doublerIf a triggered ability of a Doctor you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
- Keyword · impossible girlimpossible girl
- AbilityImpossible Girl — If Clara Oswald is your commander, choose a color before the game begins. Clara Oswald is the chosen color.
What a Clara Oswald deck needs
Plays as trigger doubler. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- a Doctor partner and Doctors with triggered abilities (each Doctor trigger fires twice)
The Clara Oswald deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 6× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- 6× A permanent that pays off creatures dying — the trigger a death-trigger doubler multiplies
- 12× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 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
Best cards for Clara Oswald
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 permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Meteor Golem7 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Dauntless Scrapbot3 mana
- Skyscanner3 mana
- Duplicant6 mana
- Threefold Thunderhulk7 mana
- Embermouth Sentinel2 mana
A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- Signal Pest1 mana
- Weathered Sentinels3 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Sword of the Animist2 mana
- Armory Automaton3 mana
- Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul3 mana
- Artisan of Kozilek9 mana
- Big Mother Mouser4 mana
A permanent that pays off creatures dying — the trigger a death-trigger doubler multiplies
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Blade of the Bloodchief1 mana
- Tarrian's Soulcleaver1 mana
- Scrap Trawler3 mana
- Nuka-Cola Vending Machine3 mana
- Nim Deathmantle2 mana
- Resurrection Orb2 mana
- Bounty Board3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
- Warping Wail2 mana
- Null Elemental Blast1 mana
- Zuko's Exile5 mana
- Clay Golem4 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
- Self-Assembler5 mana
- Pyre of Heroes2 mana
- Tamiyo's Journal5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Karn's Sylex3 mana
- Calamity of the Titans6 mana
- Apocalypse Chime2 mana
- The Moment2 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
- Key to the City2 mana
- Mask of Memory2 mana
- Tome of Legends2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Combos with Clara Oswald
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Clara Oswald is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Clara Oswald + Mark Of Sakiko + Aggravated Assault + Sticky Fingers
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