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Old Rutstein

Legendary Creature — Human Peasant · {1}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

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What Old Rutstein 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 · upkeepWhen Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect

What an Old Rutstein deck needs

Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)

The Old Rutstein deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 9× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 13× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Old Rutstein

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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