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Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Legendary Artifact Creature — Food Knight · {2} · Colorless commander

Syr Ginger has trample, hexproof, and haste as long as an opponent controls a planeswalker. Whenever another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Syr Ginger and scry 1. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Syr Ginger: You gain life equal to its power.

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What Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender 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 · otherWhenever another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Syr Ginger and scry 1.
• Activated ability{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Syr Ginger: You gain life equal to its power.
• Keyword · hexproofhexproof
• AbilitySyr Ginger has trample, hexproof, and haste as long as an opponent controls a planeswalker.

What a Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender deck needs

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

• artifacts and Treasures to sacrifice (its payoff is artifacts going to the graveyard)
• artifacts (its text counts them)
• 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 Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender 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
• 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 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 Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

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 Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Samwise Gamgee + Gingerbrute + Academy Manufactor + Peregrin Took1,505 decks
• Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar1,458 decks
• Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Animation Module + Krark-Clan Ironworks1,286 decks
• Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Samwise Gamgee + Jaheira, Friend Of The Forest + Gingerbrute + Peregrin Took960 decks
• Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Samwise Gamgee + Gingerbrute + Academy Manufactor + Parallel Lives561 decks
• Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Samwise Gamgee + Gingerbrute + Academy Manufactor + Mondrak, Glory Dominus519 decks

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