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Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · {2}{W} · White commander

More Than Meets the Eye {1}{W} (You may cast this card converted for {1}{W}.) Lifelink Whenever you gain life, you may convert Ratchet. When you do, return target artifact card with mana value less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.) Lifelink Whenever one or more nontoken artifacts you control are put into a graveyard from the battlefield, convert Ratchet. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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What Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer 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 · lifegainWhenever you gain life, you may convert Ratchet. When you do, return target artifact card with mana value less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn from your graveyard to the battl
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever one or more nontoken artifacts you control are put into a graveyard from the battlefield, convert Ratchet. This ability triggers only once each turn.
• Keyword · more than meets the eyemore than meets the eye
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink
• Keyword · living metalliving metal

What a Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer deck needs

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

• lifegain (each gain converts it and returns an artifact up to the life gained this turn)
• artifacts to recur

The Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer deck plan

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

• 16× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 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 Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer

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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