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Samut, the Driving Force

Samut, the Driving Force

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Cleric · {3}{R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander

First strike, vigilance, haste Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) Other creatures you control get +X/+0, where X is your speed. Noncreature spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is your speed.
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What Samut, the Driving Force actually does

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What a Samut, the Driving Force deck wants

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Best cards for Samut, the Driving Force

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.

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Crop Rotation1 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Faithless Looting1 mana
  4. Gamble1 mana
  5. Lightning Bolt1 mana
  6. Path to Exile1 mana
  7. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  8. Vandalblast1 mana

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Crop Rotation1 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Faithless Looting1 mana
  4. Gamble1 mana
  5. Lightning Bolt1 mana
  6. Path to Exile1 mana
  7. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  8. Vandalblast1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  2. Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon3 mana
  3. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  4. Hornet Nest3 mana
  5. Pashalik Mons3 mana
  6. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  7. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  8. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Generous Gift3 mana
  8. Nature's Claim1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  6. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  7. Citywide Bust3 mana
  8. Harsh Mercy3 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

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  4. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  5. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  6. Smothering Tithe4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Pip-Boy 30001 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  4. Bastion Protector3 mana
  5. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  6. Sterling Grove2 mana
  7. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  8. Guardian Augmenter3 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  7. Crop Rotation1 mana
  8. Delighted Halfling1 mana

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