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Sydri, Galvanic Genius

Sydri, Galvanic Genius

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · {W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander

{U}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn. {W}{B}: Target artifact creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
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What Sydri, Galvanic Genius actually does

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

What a Sydri, Galvanic Genius deck needs

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

The Sydri, Galvanic Genius deck plan

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

Best cards for Sydri, Galvanic Genius

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.

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Cleric Class1 mana
  3. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  4. Mirror Entity3 mana
  5. Oketra's Monument3 mana
  6. Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
  7. Nightscape Familiar2 mana
  8. Hazoret's Monument3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. Defile1 mana
  8. Tragic Slip1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  6. Wrath of God4 mana
  7. Day of Judgment4 mana
  8. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  7. General's Enforcer2 mana
  8. Lost in the Maze2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Dimir Signet2 mana
  4. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Chrome Mox0 mana
  8. Everflowing Chalice0 mana

Combos with Sydri, Galvanic Genius

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sydri, Galvanic Genius is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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