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The Pride of Hull Clade

Legendary Creature — Crocodile Elk Turtle · {10}{G} · Green/Blue commander

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control. Defender {2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

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What The Pride of Hull Clade actually does

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

• Activated ability{2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it did
• Keyword · defenderdefender

What a The Pride of Hull Clade deck needs

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

• creatures (its size grows with every one you control)
• high-toughness creatures — walls, defenders and +0/+X effects (its text reads the team's toughness)
• many cheap evasive attackers and team evasion (every creature that connects triggers it)

The The Pride of Hull Clade deck plan

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

• 23× 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
• 16× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 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
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for The Pride of Hull Clade

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 Pride of Hull Clade

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Pride of Hull Clade is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• The Pride of Hull Clade + Body Of Research176 decks
• The Pride of Hull Clade + Phyrexian Altar + The Skullspore Nexus5 decks

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