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The Goose Mother

Legendary Creature — Bird Hydra · {X}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander

Flying The Goose Mother enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up. Whenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.

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What The Goose Mother 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 The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a The Goose Mother deck needs

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

• ramp, and ways to return the commander to your hand and recast it bigger (its enter trigger is sized by X — a blink makes X zero)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The The Goose Mother deck plan

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

• 7× 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
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 7× 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for The Goose Mother

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 The Goose Mother

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Goose Mother is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• The Goose Mother + A Realm Reborn + Academy Manufactor + Temur Sabertooth5 decks
• The Goose Mother + A Realm Reborn + Academy Manufactor + Meticulous Excavation

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