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Satsuki, the Living Lore

Satsuki, the Living Lore

Legendary Creature — Human Druid · {G}{W} · Green/White commander

{T}: Put a lore counter on each Saga you control. Activate only as a sorcery. When Satsuki dies, choose up to one — • Return target Saga or enchantment creature you control to its owner's hand. • Return target Saga card from your graveyard to your hand.
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What Satsuki, the Living Lore actually does

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What a Satsuki, the Living Lore deck wants

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Best cards for Satsuki, the Living Lore

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Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Runadi, Behemoth Caller3 mana
  5. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  6. Super State7 mana
  7. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
  8. Lavaspur Boots1 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Bear Umbra4 mana
  2. Reconnaissance1 mana
  3. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  4. Wilderness Reclamation4 mana
  5. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  6. Nature's Will4 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Umbral Mantle3 mana

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

  1. Crystal Fragments // Summon: Alexander1 mana
  2. Crystal Fragments // Summon: Alexander1 mana
  3. Summon: Fenrir3 mana
  4. Azusa's Many Journeys // Likeness of the Seeker2 mana
  5. Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin2 mana
  6. Michiko's Reign of Truth // Portrait of Michiko2 mana
  7. Summon: Yojimbo4 mana
  8. Teachings of the Kirin // Kirin-Touched Orochi2 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Wild Growth1 mana
  4. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  5. Burgeoning1 mana
  6. Land Tax1 mana
  7. Rancor1 mana
  8. Reconnaissance1 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. High Market0 mana
  2. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  3. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
  4. Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise6 mana
  5. Ulamog's Dreadsire10 mana
  6. Vivien on the Hunt6 mana
  7. Orochi Eggwatcher // Shidako, Broodmistress3 mana
  8. Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise6 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  2. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  3. Mindcrank2 mana
  4. Codex Shredder1 mana
  5. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  6. Six3 mana
  7. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Harsh Mercy3 mana
  8. Retribution of the Meek3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

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