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Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
Legendary Creature — Bear Druid · {G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
Spells you cast from your graveyard or from exile cost {2} less to cast.
Plotting cards from your hand costs {2} less.
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What Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Static ability · cost_reductionSpells you cast from your graveyard or from exile cost {2} less to cast.
- AbilityPlotting cards from your hand costs {2} less.
What a Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius deck needs
Plays as cost reducer. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- spells cast from the graveyard or exile — flashback, escape, foretell, plot, adventure (it makes them cheaper)
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
The Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 27× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 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 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
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 spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Six3 mana
- Snapcaster Mage2 mana
- Hidden Cataract0 mana
- Hidden Nursery0 mana
- Lotus Bloom0 mana
- Mox Tantalite0 mana
- Outcaster Trailblazer3 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Grapple with the Past2 mana
- Millikin2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Simic Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Aang, Swift Savior2,478 decks
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Aang, Airbending Master1,261 decks
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Aang, The Last Airbender1,259 decks
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Monk Gyatso + Lightning Greaves1,011 decks
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Appa, Loyal Sky Bison + Aang, Swift Savior866 decks
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Aang, Airbending Master + Aang, The Last Airbender775 decks