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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, sacrif
• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Grub.
• Keyword · blightblight
• Keyword · transformtransform
• Keyword · menacemenace

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

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

• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
• 10× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 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× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

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