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Errant and Giada
Legendary Creature — Human Angel · {1}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander
What Errant and Giada 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 · restrictionYou may cast spells with flash or flying from the top of your library.
- Keyword · flashflash
- Keyword · flyingflying
What an Errant and Giada deck needs
Plays as flash and fliers. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- spells with flash and creatures with flying (it casts them from the top)
- top-deck manipulation
The Errant and Giada deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 26× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
Best cards for Errant and Giada
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 that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Cleric Class1 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Mirror Entity3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Hazoret's Monument3 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
- Twinning Staff3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 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
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Errant and Giada
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Errant and Giada is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Errant and Giada + Mortuary + Ashnod's Altar + Hope Of Ghirapur
- Errant and Giada + Mortuary + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Hope Of Ghirapur
- Errant and Giada + Mortuary + Ashnod's Altar + Pili-Pala
- Errant and Giada + Mortuary + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Pili-Pala
- Errant and Giada + Mortuary + Ashnod's Altar + Arcbound Stinger
- Errant and Giada + Mortuary + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Arcbound Stinger
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