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Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier Scientist · {1}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander

Partner with Blue, Loyal Raptor {T}: Put your choice of a reach, menace, trample, or haste counter on target Dinosaur. Activate only as a sorcery.
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What Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer actually does

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What an Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer deck needs

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

The Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer deck plan

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

Best cards for Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Samut, Hazoret's Champion2 mana
  2. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana
  3. Domri Rade3 mana
  4. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana
  5. Rising of the Day3 mana
  6. Fervor3 mana
  7. Tuktuk Rubblefort3 mana
  8. Hellraiser Goblin3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  2. Lightning Runner5 mana
  3. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  4. Éomer, Marshal of Rohan4 mana
  5. Nature's Chosen1 mana
  6. Instill Energy1 mana
  7. Copperhorn Scout1 mana
  8. Quest for Renewal2 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Bonehoard Dracosaur5 mana
  2. Palani's Hatcher5 mana
  3. Magmasaur5 mana
  4. Regisaur Alpha5 mana
  5. Devil Dinosaur4 mana
  6. Regal Behemoth6 mana
  7. Raptor Hatchling2 mana
  8. Marauding Raptor2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Chaos Warp3 mana
  3. Transforming Flourish3 mana
  4. Hulk's Thunderclap2 mana
  5. Pawpatch Formation2 mana
  6. Scorching Dragonfire2 mana
  7. Giantfall2 mana
  8. Wing Puncture1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  2. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  3. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  4. Summoner's Pact0 mana
  5. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Time of Need2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  4. Jokulhaups6 mana
  5. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  6. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  7. Apocalypse5 mana
  8. Anarchy4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Chandra, Dressed to Kill3 mana
  2. Chandra, Fire Artisan4 mana
  3. Chaos Channeler4 mana
  4. Infiltration Lens1 mana
  5. Skullclamp1 mana
  6. Mezzio Mugger5 mana
  7. Sylvan Library2 mana
  8. Bard Class2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Veil of Summer1 mana
  2. Silkguard1 mana
  3. Heroic Intervention2 mana
  4. Resuscitate2 mana
  5. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  6. Blinding Fog3 mana
  7. Legolas's Quick Reflexes1 mana
  8. Tamiyo's Safekeeping1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Enter the Unknown1 mana
  2. Radha, Heir to Keld2 mana
  3. Exploration Broodship1 mana
  4. Gruul Signet2 mana
  5. Exploration1 mana
  6. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
  7. Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth1 mana
  8. Oashra Cultivator1 mana

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