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Sazh Katzroy
Legendary Creature — Human Pilot · {3}{G} · Green commander
When Sazh Katzroy enters, you may search your library for a Bird or basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever Sazh Katzroy attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.
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What Sazh Katzroy 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 · etbWhen Sazh Katzroy enters, you may search your library for a Bird or basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- Triggered ability · attackWhenever Sazh Katzroy attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.
- Keyword · doubledouble
What a Sazh Katzroy deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 10× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
Best cards for Sazh Katzroy
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
- Primordial Hydra2 mana
- Tifa Lockhart2 mana
- Voracious Hydra2 mana
- Mossborn Hydra3 mana
- Fireshrieker3 mana
- Kinetic Ooze1 mana
- Scythecat Cub2 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Hornet Nest3 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Broodhatch Nantuko2 mana
- Tervigon2 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Scepter of Celebration3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Birds of Paradise1 mana
- Gilded Goose1 mana
- Birds of Paradise // Birds of Paradise0 mana
- Sazh's Chocobo1 mana
- Junk Diver3 mana
- Traveling Chocobo3 mana
- Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo // Black Chocobo2 mana
- Turtle-Duck1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
- Lotus Field0 mana
- Riveteers Overlook0 mana
- Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
- Gilded Goose1 mana
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
- Cankerbloom2 mana
- Thirsting Roots1 mana
- Evolution Sage3 mana
- Mossborn Hydra3 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Fangs of Kalonia2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Shrink1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Simplify1 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Whirlwind4 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Worldslayer5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana