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Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant

Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant

Legendary Creature — Human Druid · {1}{R} · Red commander

When Sarkhan enters, you may behold a Dragon. If you do, create a Treasure token. (To behold a Dragon, choose a Dragon you control or reveal a Dragon card from your hand.) Whenever a Dragon you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarkhan. Until end of turn, Sarkhan becomes a Dragon in addition to its other types and gains flying.
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What Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant actually does

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What a Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant deck wants

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Best cards for Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant

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Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana

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

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
  3. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  4. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  5. Magda, Brazen Outlaw2 mana
  6. Magda, the Hoardmaster2 mana
  7. Reckless Lackey1 mana
  8. Xorn3 mana

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

  1. Shivan Devastator1 mana
  2. Slumbering Dragon1 mana
  3. Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw2 mana
  4. Reckless Barbarian2 mana
  5. Atsushi, the Blazing Sky4 mana
  6. Leyline Tyrant4 mana
  7. Thunderbreak Regent4 mana
  8. Vengeful Ancestor4 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  3. Lotus Field0 mana
  4. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  5. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  6. Impact Tremors2 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Adventurer's Inn0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  3. Castle Embereth0 mana
  4. Fire Nation Palace0 mana
  5. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  6. Dragon Tempest2 mana
  7. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  8. Crash Through1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  3. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  4. Staff of Compleation3 mana
  5. Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
  6. Carnival Elephant Meteor0 mana
  7. Sword of Hours2 mana
  8. Throne of Geth2 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Breaking Point3 mana
  3. Crack the Earth1 mana
  4. Kozilek's Return3 mana
  5. Akki Blizzard-Herder2 mana
  6. Devastating Dreams2 mana
  7. Tectonic Break2 mana
  8. Tremble2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Goblin Recruiter2 mana
  2. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  3. Dragon's Approach3 mana
  4. Flamekin Harbinger1 mana
  5. Goblin Matron3 mana
  6. Sarkhan's Triumph3 mana
  7. Dwarven Recruiter3 mana
  8. Myr Kinsmith4 mana

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