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Indominus Rex, Alpha

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Mutant · {1}{U/B}{U/B}{G}{G} · Black/Green/Blue commander

As Indominus Rex enters, discard any number of creature cards. It enters with a flying counter on it if a card discarded this way has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, haste, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. When Indominus Rex enters, draw a card for each counter on it.

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What Indominus Rex, Alpha 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 Indominus Rex enters, draw a card for each counter on it.
• Keyword · double strikedouble strike
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
• Keyword · hexproofhexproof
• Keyword · hastehaste
• Keyword · indestructibleindestructible
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink
• Keyword · menacemenace
• Keyword · reachreach
• Keyword · trampletrample

What an Indominus Rex, Alpha deck wants

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

• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 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
• 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 2× Answer a whole board at once
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

Best cards for Indominus Rex, Alpha

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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