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Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence

Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence

Legendary Creature — Snake Monk // Legendary Enchantment · {1}{G}{G} · Green commander

Reveal your hand: If you have seven or more land cards in your hand, flip Sasaya. Whenever a land you control is tapped for mana, add an additional one mana of any type that land produced for each other land you control with the same name as it.
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What Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence deck needs

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

The Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence deck plan

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

Best cards for Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence

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.

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  3. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  4. Enduring Vitality3 mana
  5. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  6. Oketra's Monument3 mana
  7. Assault Formation2 mana
  8. Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana

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

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Nature's Claim1 mana
  3. Emerald Charm1 mana
  4. Naturalize2 mana
  5. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  6. Natural State1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Archdruid's Charm3 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. Summoner's Pact0 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Needle Storm3 mana
  3. Hurricane1 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Season of Gathering6 mana
  6. Gale Force5 mana
  7. Corrosive Gale1 mana
  8. Tropical Storm1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  4. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Elemental Bond3 mana
  8. Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Incubation Druid2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  6. Heritage Druid1 mana
  7. Llanowar Tribe3 mana
  8. Chrome Mox0 mana

Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Explore2 mana
  3. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
  4. Exploration Broodship1 mana
  5. Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
  6. Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
  7. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  8. Druid Class2 mana

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