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Rydia, Summoner of Mist

Rydia, Summoner of Mist

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · {R}{G} · Green/Red commander

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. Summon — {X}, {T}: Return target Saga card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
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What Rydia, Summoner of Mist actually does

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What a Rydia, Summoner of Mist deck wants

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Best cards for Rydia, Summoner of Mist

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki3 mana
  4. Goblin Chieftain3 mana
  5. Blacksmith's Talent1 mana
  6. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Explore2 mana
  3. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
  4. Exploration Broodship1 mana
  5. Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
  6. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  7. Druid Class2 mana
  8. Icetill Explorer4 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  2. Bear Umbra4 mana
  3. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  4. Wilderness Reclamation4 mana
  5. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  6. Nature's Will4 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Thornbite Staff2 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Rydia, Summoner of Mist2 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Kumano Faces Kakkazan // Etching of Kumano1 mana
  2. Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki3 mana
  3. Summon: Fenrir3 mana
  4. Azusa's Many Journeys // Likeness of the Seeker2 mana
  5. Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin2 mana
  6. Urabrask // The Great Work4 mana
  7. Summon: Brynhildr2 mana
  8. Teachings of the Kirin // Kirin-Touched Orochi2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  2. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  3. Mindcrank2 mana
  4. Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
  5. Codex Shredder1 mana
  6. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  7. Six3 mana
  8. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Beast Within3 mana
  3. Nature's Claim1 mana
  4. Crush1 mana
  5. Emerald Charm1 mana
  6. Shrink1 mana
  7. Naturalize2 mana
  8. Origin of Metalbending2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Breaking Point3 mana
  3. Crack the Earth1 mana
  4. Simplify1 mana
  5. Kozilek's Return3 mana
  6. Akki Blizzard-Herder2 mana
  7. Devastating Dreams2 mana
  8. Tectonic Break2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

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