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Mondo Gecko
Legendary Creature — Lizard Mutant · {1}{U}{U} · Blue commander
{1}, Discard a card: Until end of turn, Mondo Gecko becomes the color of your choice and gains hexproof from that color.
Whenever Mondo Gecko deals combat damage to a player, draw a card for each color among permanents you control.
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What Mondo Gecko actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{1}, Discard a card: Until end of turn, Mondo Gecko becomes the color of your choice and gains hexproof from that color.
- Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Mondo Gecko deals combat damage to a player, draw a card for each color among permanents you control.
What a Mondo Gecko deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 9× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 12× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
- 18× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 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
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Mondo Gecko
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.
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
- Galerider Sliver1 mana
- Favorable Winds2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Colossus Hammer1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Archetype of Imagination6 mana
Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Fomori Vault0 mana
- Pip-Boy 30001 mana
- Collector's Vault2 mana
- Containment Construct2 mana
- Ghostly Pilferer2 mana
- Key to the City2 mana
- Kitsa, Otterball Elite2 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Volatile Stormdrake2 mana
- Breaker of Creation8 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Suspend1 mana
- Snap2 mana
- Into the Flood Maw1 mana
- Planar Incision2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Displacement Wave2 mana
- Filter Out3 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Llawan, Cephalid Empress4 mana
- Part the Veil4 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- Counterspell2 mana
- Three Steps Ahead1 mana
- Long River's Pull2 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Abjure1 mana
- Archmage's Charm3 mana
- Cancel3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana