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Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero

Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {2}{R}{W} · Red/White commander

First strike When Gerrard dies, exile it and return to the battlefield all artifact and creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.
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What Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero 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 Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero deck needs

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

The Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero deck plan

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

Best cards for Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero

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.

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. Fanatical Devotion3 mana
  8. Martyr's Cause3 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

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Erode1 mana
  7. Unwanted Remake1 mana
  8. Angelic Ascension2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon3 mana
  4. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  5. Templar Knight2 mana
  6. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  7. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  8. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  5. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

Combos with Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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