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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 needs

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

The Samut, the Driving Force deck plan

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

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

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

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  3. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  4. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  5. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  6. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  7. Wrenn and Seven5 mana
  8. Andúril, Flame of the West3 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. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Eladamri's Call2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  6. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  7. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  8. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros Signet2 mana
  3. Gruul Signet2 mana
  4. Incubation Druid2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  8. Selesnya Signet2 mana

Combos with Samut, the Driving Force

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Samut, the Driving Force is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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