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Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard // Legendary Planeswalker — Ral · {1}{R} · Red/Blue commander

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell during your turn, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Ral deals 1 damage to you. If you win the flip, you may exile Ral. If you do, return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Ral enters with an additional loyalty counter on him for each instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn. +1: Until your next turn, instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. −2: Ral deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets. Draw a card if you control a blue permanent other than Ral. −8: Exile the top eight cards of your library. You may cast instant and sorcery spells from among them this turn without paying their mana costs.

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What Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell during your turn, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Ral deals 1 damage to you. If you win the flip, you may exile Ral. If you do, return him to the battl
• Activated ability+1: Until your next turn, instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
• Activated ability−2: Ral deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets. Draw a card if you control a blue permanent other than Ral.
• Activated ability−8: Exile the top eight cards of your library. You may cast instant and sorcery spells from among them this turn without paying their mana costs.
• Static ability · cost_reductionInstant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

What a Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy deck needs

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

• ways to keep the commander planeswalker alive (blockers, fogs, pillowfort), loyalty growth (proliferate, loyalty boosters) and planeswalker synergies — it must survive a turn cycle to work
• cheap, dense instant and sorcery spells (it makes them cheaper)
• instant and sorcery spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)

The Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy deck plan

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

• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 6× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
• 6× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy

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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