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Gev, Scaled Scorch
Legendary Creature — Lizard Mercenary · {B}{R} · Black/Red commander
What Gev, Scaled Scorch 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a Lizard spell, Gev deals 1 damage to target opponent.
- Keyword · wardward
- AbilityWard—Pay 2 life.
- AbilityOther creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each opponent who lost life this turn.
What a Gev, Scaled Scorch deck needs
Plays as lizard typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- damage and drain every turn (its effect is sized by the life the opponents lost this turn)
- lizard creatures (its text counts them)
The Gev, Scaled Scorch deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 6× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Gev, Scaled Scorch
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 repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- Impact Tremors2 mana
- Mount Doom0 mana
- Shivan Gorge0 mana
- Coruscation Mage2 mana
- Descent into Avernus3 mana
- Ramunap Ruins0 mana
- Agate Instigator2 mana
- Black Mage's Rod2 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Iridescent Vinelasher1 mana
- Agate Instigator2 mana
- Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar2 mana
- Lizard Blades2 mana
- Party Thrasher2 mana
- Blazing Rootwalla1 mana
- Hired Claw1 mana
- Ravine Raider1 mana
A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
- Iridescent Vinelasher1 mana
- Agate Instigator2 mana
- Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar2 mana
- Lizard Blades2 mana
- Party Thrasher2 mana
- Blazing Rootwalla1 mana
- Hired Claw1 mana
- Ravine Raider1 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
- Gallia, the Merrymaker2 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Combos with Gev, Scaled Scorch
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Gev, Scaled Scorch is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Gev, Scaled Scorch + Goblin Bombardment8,936 decks
- Gev, Scaled Scorch + Murderous Redcap7,521 decks
- Gev, Scaled Scorch + Viscera Seer6,767 decks
- Gev, Scaled Scorch + Ashnod's Altar5,338 decks
- Gev, Scaled Scorch + Carrion Feeder5,204 decks
- Gev, Scaled Scorch + Yahenni, Undying Partisan3,786 decks
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