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Toluz, Clever Conductor

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · {W/U}{U}{U/B} · Black/Blue/White commander

When Toluz enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard. When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.

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What Toluz, Clever Conductor 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 Toluz enters, it connives.
• Triggered ability · discardWhenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard.
• Triggered ability · deathWhen Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.

What a Toluz, Clever Conductor deck needs

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

• sacrifice outlets and recursion for the commander (its own death is the payoff)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• looting and discard outlets (it rewards your own discards)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)

The Toluz, Clever Conductor deck plan

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

• 11× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
• 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 5× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 9× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 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 Toluz, Clever Conductor

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 Toluz, Clever Conductor

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Toluz, Clever Conductor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Toluz, Clever Conductor + Ketramose, The New Dawn + Feast Of Sanity353 decks
• Toluz, Clever Conductor + Ketramose, The New Dawn + Queza, Augur Of Agonies318 decks
• Toluz, Clever Conductor + Ketramose, The New Dawn + Feast Of Sanity + Skirge Familiar226 decks
• Toluz, Clever Conductor + Ketramose, The New Dawn + Skirge Familiar + Queza, Augur Of Agonies181 decks
• Toluz, Clever Conductor + Ketramose, The New Dawn + Feast Of Sanity + Psychic Frog177 decks
• Toluz, Clever Conductor + Ketramose, The New Dawn + Feast Of Sanity + Ghostly Pilferer162 decks

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