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Sarah Jane Smith

Legendary Creature — Human Detective · {1}{W} · White commander

Whenever you cast a historic spell, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

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What Sarah Jane Smith 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a historic spell, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn.

What a Sarah Jane Smith deck needs

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

• historic spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)

The Sarah Jane Smith deck plan

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

• 33× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 7× 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
• 9× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Sarah Jane Smith

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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