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Ryan Sinclair

Legendary Creature — Human · {2}{R} · Red commander

Whenever Ryan attacks, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if it's a spell with mana value less than or equal to Ryan's power. Put the exiled cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

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What Ryan Sinclair 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 · attackWhenever Ryan attacks, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if it's a spell with mana value less than or e

What a Ryan Sinclair deck needs

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

• spells at or below its power (each attack casts the first nonland card free if it's small enough)
• pump and equipment to raise its power
• a Doctor partner (Doctor's companion)

The Ryan Sinclair deck plan

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

• 12× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 8× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 8× 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
• 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 20× A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

Best cards for Ryan Sinclair

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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