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Quina, Qu Gourmet
Legendary Creature — Qu · {2}{G} · Green commander
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a 1/1 green Frog creature token are created instead.
{2}, Sacrifice a Frog: Put a +1/+1 counter on Quina.
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What Quina, Qu Gourmet 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{2}, Sacrifice a Frog: Put a +1/+1 counter on Quina.
- Replacement effect · otherIf one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a 1/1 green Frog creature token are created instead.
What a Quina, Qu Gourmet deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander is a sacrifice outlet)
- counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
The Quina, Qu Gourmet deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 17× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 7× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 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
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Quina, Qu Gourmet
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.
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Old-Growth Troll3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison4 mana
- Old One Eye6 mana
- Mask of the Jadecrafter2 mana
- Sosuke's Summons3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Rampant Frogantua3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Finale of Devastation2 mana
- Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
- Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
- Sylvan Anthem2 mana
- Weaver of Harmony2 mana
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Combos with Quina, Qu Gourmet
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Quina, Qu Gourmet is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Quina, Qu Gourmet + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar1,532 decks
- Quina, Qu Gourmet + Warren Soultrader + Zulaport Cutthroat1,317 decks
- Quina, Qu Gourmet + Warren Soultrader + Peregrin Took1,230 decks
- Quina, Qu Gourmet + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer1,212 decks
- Quina, Qu Gourmet + Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist1,146 decks
- Quina, Qu Gourmet + Pitiless Plunderer + Parallel Lives985 decks
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