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Muerra, Trash Tactician
Legendary Creature — Raccoon Warrior · {1}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {R} or {G} for each Raccoon you control.
Whenever you expend 4, you gain 3 life. (You expend 4 as you spend your fourth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)
Whenever you expend 8, exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
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What Muerra, Trash Tactician 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 · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, add {R} or {G} for each Raccoon you control.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever you expend 4, you gain 3 life.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever you expend 8, exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
What a Muerra, Trash Tactician deck needs
Plays as raccoon typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- Raccoons (each adds mana)
- big spells to expend 4 and 8 (each gains life and impulses two cards)
The Muerra, Trash Tactician deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 10× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
Best cards for Muerra, Trash Tactician
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.
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest2 mana
- Trailtracker Scout2 mana
- Wandertale Mentor2 mana
- Bakersbane Duo2 mana
- Bark-Knuckle Boxer2 mana
- Brazen Collector2 mana
- Keen-Eyed Curator2 mana
- Raccoon Rallier2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Gruul Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
- Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger12 mana
- Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
- Apex Devastator10 mana
- Blightsteel Colossus12 mana
- Charred Foyer // Warped Space10 mana
- Darksteel Colossus11 mana
- Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana