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Redshift, Rocketeer Chief
Legendary Creature — Goblin Pilot · {R}{G} · Green/Red commander
Vigilance
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Redshift's power. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
Exhaust — {10}{R}{G}: Put any number of permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
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What Redshift, Rocketeer Chief 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{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Redshift's power. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
- Activated ability{10}{R}{G}: Put any number of permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
- Keyword · exhaustexhaust
What a Redshift, Rocketeer Chief deck needs
Plays as big mana. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- activated abilities to spend its mana on
- ways to raise its power
- expensive permanents to put in with its exhaust
The Redshift, Rocketeer Chief deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 28× Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 10× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 12× A creature with an activated ability worth copying or borrowing
- 10× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
Best cards for Redshift, Rocketeer Chief
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.
Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- The Great Henge9 mana
- City on Fire8 mana
- Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger12 mana
- Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
- Cavern-Hoard Dragon9 mana
- Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 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
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Gruul Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
A creature with an activated ability worth copying or borrowing
- Birds of Paradise1 mana
- Delighted Halfling1 mana
- Elvish Mystic1 mana
- Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
- Llanowar Elves1 mana
- Bloom Tender2 mana
- Ornithopter of Paradise2 mana
- Arbor Elf1 mana
Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
- Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger12 mana
- Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
- Apex Devastator10 mana
- Blightsteel Colossus12 mana
- Charred Foyer // Warped Space10 mana
- Darksteel Colossus11 mana
- Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
Combos with Redshift, Rocketeer Chief
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Redshift, Rocketeer Chief is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Redshift, Rocketeer Chief + Umbral Mantle2,675 decks
- Redshift, Rocketeer Chief + Staff Of Domination2,426 decks
- Redshift, Rocketeer Chief + Aggravated Assault1,989 decks
- Redshift, Rocketeer Chief + Sword Of The Paruns1,698 decks
- Redshift, Rocketeer Chief + Freed From The Real444 decks
- Redshift, Rocketeer Chief + High Alert221 decks