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Gorion, Wise Mentor

Gorion, Wise Mentor

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander

Vigilance Whenever you cast an Adventure spell, you may copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
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What Gorion, Wise Mentor actually does

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What a Gorion, Wise Mentor deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Gorion, Wise Mentor

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 permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  3. Simic Growth Chamber0 mana
  4. Temple of Mystery0 mana
  5. Azorius Chancery0 mana
  6. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  7. Hedge Maze0 mana
  8. Lotus Field0 mana

A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Walking Ballista0 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Mishra's Bauble0 mana
  5. Sol Talisman0 mana
  6. Tormod's Crypt0 mana
  7. Urza's Bauble0 mana
  8. Chrome Mox0 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Displacement Wave2 mana
  8. Harsh Mercy3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  5. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  6. Reshape2 mana
  7. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  8. Mask of the Mimic1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  7. Rhystic Study3 mana
  8. Archivist of Oghma2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  5. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  6. Sterling Grove2 mana
  7. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  8. Guardian Augmenter3 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  7. Crop Rotation1 mana
  8. Delighted Halfling1 mana

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