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Sarulf, Realm Eater

Legendary Creature — Wolf · {1}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarulf. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Sarulf has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove all of them. If you do, exile each other nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of counters removed this way.

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What Sarulf, Realm Eater 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 · otherWhenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarulf.
• Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, if Sarulf has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove all of them. If you do, exile each other nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the num

What a Sarulf, Realm Eater deck needs

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

• removal, deathtouch and one-sided sweepers (its payoff is the opponents' creatures dying)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Sarulf, Realm Eater deck plan

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

• 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 12× 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
• 12× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Sarulf, Realm Eater

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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