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Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie

Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock // Legendary Creature — Goblin Warrior · {2}{B} · Black/Red commander

Menace Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Grub, Storied Matriarch, return up to one target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {R}. If you do, transform Grub. Menace Whenever Grub attacks, you may blight 1. If you do, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the blighted creature, except it has "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token." At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Grub.

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What Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 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 · etbWhenever this creature enters or transforms into Grub, Storied Matriarch, return up to one target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {R}. If you do, transform Grub.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Grub attacks, you may blight 1. If you do, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the blighted creature, except it has "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."
• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Grub.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie deck needs

Plays as copy engine. 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)
• high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• goblin creatures (its text counts them)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie deck plan

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

• 6× 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
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 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

Best cards for Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie

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.

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