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Ginger, Queen of Sweets
Legendary Artifact Creature — Food Noble · {6} · Colorless commander
When Ginger enters, you become the monarch.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Ginger: You gain 6 life.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a Gingerbrute token. (It's a {1} 1/1 Food Golem artifact creature with haste, "{1}: This token can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste," and "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
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What Ginger, Queen of Sweets 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 · etbWhen Ginger enters, you become the monarch.
- Activated ability{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Ginger: You gain 6 life.
- Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of each upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a Gingerbrute token.
What a Ginger, Queen of Sweets deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
- haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)
The Ginger, Queen of Sweets deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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
Best cards for Ginger, Queen of Sweets
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.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana
- Haunted Cloak3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
- Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
- Sword of the Paruns4 mana
- Maze of Ith0 mana
- Unwinding Clock4 mana
- Deserted Temple0 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Meteor Golem7 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Dauntless Scrapbot3 mana
- Skyscanner3 mana
- Duplicant6 mana
- Threefold Thunderhulk7 mana
- Embermouth Sentinel2 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Spawnbed Protector7 mana
- Wickersmith's Tools3 mana
- Spider-Slayer, Hatred Honed2 mana
- Rolling Hamsphere7 mana
- Thopter Assembly6 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- It That Heralds the End2 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Forsaken Monument5 mana
- Caged Sun6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Heroes' Podium5 mana
- Endurance Bobblehead3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
- Warping Wail2 mana
- Null Elemental Blast1 mana
- Getaway Car3 mana
- Zuko's Exile5 mana
- Clay Golem4 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
- Self-Assembler5 mana
- Pyre of Heroes2 mana
- Tamiyo's Journal5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Karn's Sylex3 mana
- Calamity of the Titans6 mana
- Apocalypse Chime2 mana
- The Moment2 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana