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Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · {4}{W} · White commander

Vigilance If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Permanents entering don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger.

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What Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 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 permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
• Static ability · hoserPermanents entering don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger.
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What an Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines deck needs

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

• permanents with enter-the-battlefield triggers and ways to re-enter them (its doubler multiplies every ETB)
• stax pieces, taxes and hatebears that break parity in your favor

The Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines deck plan

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

• 17× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 13× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
• 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

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.

Combos with Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines + Peregrine Drake + Venser, Shaper Savant6,760 decks
• Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines + Cloud Of Faeries + Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker2,514 decks
• Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines + Palinchron1,223 decks
• Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines + Derevi, Empyrial Tactician + Bloom Tender880 decks
• Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines + Derevi, Empyrial Tactician + Faeburrow Elder769 decks
• Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines + Urza, Lord High Artificer + Deadeye Navigator630 decks

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