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Surrak and Goreclaw

Legendary Creature — Human Bear · {4}{G}{G} · Green commander

Trample Other creatures you control have trample. Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

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What Surrak and Goreclaw 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 · etbWhenever another nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.
• Static ability · keyword_grantOther creatures you control have trample.
• Keyword · trampletrample

What a Surrak and Goreclaw deck needs

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

• nontoken creatures entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (each one enters with a counter and haste; tokens get nothing)
• big trampling bodies that profit from haste (the team has trample)

The Surrak and Goreclaw deck plan

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

• 8× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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

Best cards for Surrak and Goreclaw

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 Surrak and Goreclaw

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

• Surrak and Goreclaw + Selvala, Heart Of The Wilds + Temur Sabertooth3,507 decks
• Surrak and Goreclaw + Ashnod's Altar1,448 decks
• Surrak and Goreclaw + Altar Of Dementia1,018 decks
• Surrak and Goreclaw + Yahenni, Undying Partisan795 decks
• Surrak and Goreclaw + Phyrexian Altar776 decks
• Surrak and Goreclaw + Goblin Bombardment675 decks

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