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Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

Legendary Creature — Elemental Fish · {1}{U}{U}{U} · Blue commander

Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control. Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {U} (or {1}) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.

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What Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 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 · attackWhenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
• Static ability · cost_reductionThe first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {U} less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.

What an Eluge, the Shoreless Sea deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• cheap, dense instant and sorcery spells (it makes them cheaper)
• cheap instants and sorceries (every one you cast feeds it)
• land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
• islands (its size grows with every one you control)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Eluge, the Shoreless Sea deck plan

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

• 16× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

Best cards for Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

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.

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