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Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru

Legendary Creature — Elf Scout · {2}{G} · Green commander

When Sutina enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Whenever Sutina attacks, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

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What Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru 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 Sutina enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Sutina attacks, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

What a Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru

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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