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Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge

Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge

Legendary Creature — Dragon · {2}{R} · Red commander

Flying Gadrak can't attack unless you control four or more artifacts. At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each nontoken creature that died this turn. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
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What Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge actually does

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What a Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge deck needs

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

The Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge deck plan

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

Best cards for Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge

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.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  2. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  3. Crash Through1 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana
  8. Frontier Warmonger4 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  2. Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
  3. Vivi's Persistence2 mana
  4. Squee, Dubious Monarch3 mana
  5. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  6. Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison4 mana
  7. Command the Stage3 mana
  8. Dunes of the Dead0 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Goblin Bombardment2 mana
  3. Spawning Pit2 mana
  4. Ashnod's Altar3 mana
  5. Betrothed of Fire2 mana
  6. Phyrexian Altar3 mana
  7. Bogardan Dragonheart3 mana
  8. High Market0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  2. Dragon's Approach3 mana
  3. Sarkhan's Triumph3 mana
  4. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  5. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  6. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  7. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  8. Gamble1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  8. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

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