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Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

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

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What a Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender deck wants

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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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  2. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Genji Glove5 mana
  6. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  7. Tiller Engine2 mana
  8. Sword of the Paruns4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender2 mana
  2. Inquisitive Puppet1 mana
  3. Clockwork Droid2 mana
  4. Eager Construct2 mana
  5. Bronze Walrus3 mana
  6. Myr Custodian3 mana
  7. Automatic Librarian3 mana
  8. Chrome Cat3 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. High Market0 mana
  2. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  3. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
  4. Ulamog's Dreadsire10 mana
  5. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  6. Ashnod's Altar3 mana
  7. Witch's Oven1 mana
  8. Claws of Gix0 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  3. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  4. Staff of Compleation3 mana
  5. Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
  6. Carnival Elephant Meteor0 mana
  7. Sword of Hours2 mana
  8. Throne of Geth2 mana

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

  1. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  2. Titan's Presence3 mana
  3. Kozilek's Command2 mana
  4. Warping Wail2 mana
  5. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  6. Getaway Car3 mana
  7. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
  8. Voyager Staff1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  2. Coercive Portal4 mana
  3. Worldslayer5 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Apocalypse Chime2 mana
  6. All Is Dust7 mana
  7. Trailblazer's Torch4 mana
  8. False Floor4 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Myr Kinsmith4 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Shrine Steward5 mana
  7. Myr Turbine5 mana
  8. Self-Assembler5 mana

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