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Sophia, Dogged Detective

Legendary Creature — Human Detective · {1}{G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander

When Sophia enters, create Tiny, a legendary 2/2 green Dog Detective creature token with trample. {1}, Sacrifice an artifact token: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Dog you control. Whenever a Dog you control deals combat damage to a player, create a Food token, then investigate.

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What Sophia, Dogged Detective 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 Sophia enters, create Tiny, a legendary 2/2 green Dog Detective creature token with trample.
• Activated ability{1}, Sacrifice an artifact token: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Dog you control.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever a Dog you control deals combat damage to a player, create a Food token, then investigate.
• Keyword · investigateinvestigate
• Keyword · foodfood

What a Sophia, Dogged Detective deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

• 6× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 5× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 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

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