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Strax, Sontaran Nurse

Legendary Creature — Alien Cleric · {3}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander

Vigilance, trample Grenades! — {2}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose a player at random. When you do, Strax fights another target creature that player controls. Glory of Battle — Whenever Strax deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Strax.

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What Strax, Sontaran Nurse actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{2}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose a player at random. When you do, Strax fights another target creature that player controls.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Strax deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Strax.
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance
• Keyword · trampletrample
• Keyword · glory of battleglory of battle

What a Strax, Sontaran Nurse deck needs

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

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• cheap artifacts, Treasures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander's outlet eats artifacts, not creatures)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Strax, Sontaran Nurse deck plan

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

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 6× 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
• 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

Best cards for Strax, Sontaran Nurse

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.

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