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Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea

Legendary Creature — Goblin Sorcerer // Sorcery · {U}{R} // {3}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

Sanar enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) {T}: Create a Treasure token. Activate only if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn. Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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What Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea 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}: Create a Treasure token. Activate only if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn.
• AbilitySanar enters prepared.
• AbilitySearch your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

What a Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea deck needs

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

• artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures, Clues or Food on repeat)
• cheap instants and sorceries (every one you cast feeds it)
• a cheap instant or sorcery spell to cast every turn (it does nothing on a turn you haven't cast one)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea deck plan

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

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 12× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea

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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