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Sokka, Swordmaster

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally · {2}{W} · White commander

Vigilance Equipment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each Ally you control. At the beginning of combat on your turn, attach up to one target Equipment you control to Sokka.

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What Sokka, Swordmaster 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 · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, attach up to one target Equipment you control to Sokka.
• Static ability · cost_reductionEquipment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each Ally you control.
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What a Sokka, Swordmaster deck needs

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

• cheap, dense equipment spells (it makes them cheaper)
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
• ally creatures (its text counts them)

The Sokka, Swordmaster deck plan

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

• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Sokka, Swordmaster

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 Sokka, Swordmaster

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sokka, Swordmaster is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Sokka, Swordmaster + Sokka And Suki + Razor Boomerang + Smellerbee, Rebel Fighter33 decks
• Sokka, Swordmaster + Sokka And Suki + Razor Boomerang + Nahiri's Resolve31 decks
• Sokka, Swordmaster + Sokka And Suki + Razor Boomerang + Frostcliff Siege27 decks
• Sokka, Swordmaster + Sokka And Suki + Razor Boomerang + Rising Of The Day11 decks
• Sokka, Swordmaster + Sokka And Suki + Razor Boomerang + Fervor9 decks
• Sokka, Swordmaster + Sokka And Suki + Razor Boomerang + Hammer Of Purphoros8 decks

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