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Slogurk, the Overslime

Legendary Creature — Ooze · {1}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander

Trample Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on Slogurk. Remove three +1/+1 counters from Slogurk: Return it to its owner's hand. When Slogurk leaves the battlefield, return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

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What Slogurk, the Overslime 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 land card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on Slogurk.
• Activated abilityRemove three +1/+1 counters from Slogurk: Return it to its owner's hand.
• Triggered ability · otherWhen Slogurk leaves the battlefield, return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
• Keyword · trampletrample

What a Slogurk, the Overslime deck needs

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

• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)

The Slogurk, the Overslime deck plan

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

• 19× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
• 16× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 9× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Slogurk, the Overslime

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.

Combos with Slogurk, the Overslime

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Slogurk, the Overslime is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Slogurk, the Overslime + Azusa, Lost But Seeking + Walk The Aeons621 decks
• Slogurk, the Overslime + Borborygmos Enraged + Surly Badgersaur411 decks
• Slogurk, the Overslime + Surly Badgersaur + Seismic Assault259 decks
• Slogurk, the Overslime + Six + Lotus Petal109 decks
• Slogurk, the Overslime + Mind Over Matter74 decks
• Slogurk, the Overslime + Aluren + Ayula's Influence38 decks

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