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Ignis Scientia

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · {1}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander

When Ignis Scientia enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. I've Come Up with a New Recipe! — {1}{G}{U}, {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, create a Food token.

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What Ignis Scientia 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 Ignis Scientia enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a
• Activated abilityI've Come Up with a New Recipe! — {1}{G}{U}, {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, create a Food token.
• Keyword · foodfood

What an Ignis Scientia deck wants

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

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
• 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
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

Best cards for Ignis Scientia

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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