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The Rise of Sozin // Fire Lord Sozin

Enchantment — Saga // Legendary Creature — Human Noble · {4}{B}{B} · Black commander

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.) I — Destroy all creatures. II — Choose a card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for up to four cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles. III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control. Menace, firebending 3 (Whenever this creature attacks, add {R}{R}{R}. This mana lasts until end of combat.) Whenever Fire Lord Sozin deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {X}. When you do, put any number of target creature cards with total mana value X or less from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

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What The Rise of Sozin // Fire Lord Sozin actually does

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• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Fire Lord Sozin deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {X}. When you do, put any number of target creature cards with total mana value X or less from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under yo
• Keyword · transformtransform
• Keyword · firebendingfirebending
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a The Rise of Sozin // Fire Lord Sozin deck wants

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• 12× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 29× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

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