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Gau, Feral Youth

Gau, Feral Youth

Legendary Creature — Human Berserker · {1}{R} · Red commander

Rage — Whenever Gau attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. At the beginning of each end step, if a card left your graveyard this turn, Gau deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.
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What Gau, Feral Youth actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Gau, Feral Youth deck needs

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

The Gau, Feral Youth deck plan

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

Best cards for Gau, Feral Youth

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

  1. Sol Talisman0 mana
  2. Underworld Breach2 mana
  3. Faithless Looting1 mana
  4. Hidden Volcano0 mana
  5. Lotus Bloom0 mana
  6. Mox Tantalite0 mana
  7. Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift3 mana
  8. Squee, the Immortal3 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  2. Millikin2 mana
  3. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  4. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  5. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  6. Sequestered Stash0 mana
  7. Excavated Wall1 mana
  8. Wand of Vertebrae1 mana

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  7. Fervor3 mana
  8. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  3. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  4. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  5. Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
  6. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  7. Ajani's Anguish1 mana
  8. Shadowspear1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Cacophony Scamp1 mana
  2. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  3. Walking Ballista0 mana
  4. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  5. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  6. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
  7. Opal Palace0 mana
  8. Surge Conductor3 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. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  2. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  3. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  4. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  5. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  6. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  7. Gamble1 mana
  8. Hoarding Dragon5 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

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