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The Rani

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Scientist · {1}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

Whenever The Rani enters or attacks, create a red Aura enchantment token named Mark of the Rani attached to another target creature. That token has enchant creature and "Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded." Whenever a goaded creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, investigate.

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What The Rani 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 · attackWhenever The Rani enters or attacks, create a red Aura enchantment token named Mark of the Rani attached to another target creature. That token has enchant creature and "Enchanted creature gets +2/+2
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever a goaded creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, investigate.
• Keyword · investigateinvestigate

What a The Rani deck needs

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

• goad effects (a goaded creature hitting an opponent investigates)
• evasion and protection for the commander (its attack makes a goad Aura)

The The Rani deck plan

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

• 6× 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
• 6× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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

Best cards for The Rani

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.

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