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Vadrok, Apex of Thunder
Legendary Creature — Elemental Dinosaur Cat · {U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander
Mutate {1}{W/U}{R}{R} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)
Flying, first strike
Whenever this creature mutates, you may cast target noncreature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
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What Vadrok, Apex of Thunder 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 · otherWhenever this creature mutates, you may cast target noncreature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
- Keyword · mutatemutate
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · first strikefirst strike
What a Vadrok, Apex of Thunder deck needs
Plays as graveyard. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- non-Human creatures to mutate onto (each mutate recasts a cheap noncreature card from your graveyard)
- cheap instants, sorceries and artifacts with mana value 3 or less
The Vadrok, Apex of Thunder deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 20× 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
Best cards for Vadrok, Apex of Thunder
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.
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Fraying Sanity3 mana
- Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
- Sequestered Stash0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Transmute Artifact2 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Boros Signet2 mana
- Izzet Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
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
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Cleric Class1 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Mirror Entity3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
- Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
- Roiling Vortex2 mana
Combos with Vadrok, Apex of Thunder
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Vadrok, Apex of Thunder is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Vadrok, Apex of Thunder + Double Major484 decks
- Vadrok, Apex of Thunder + Chef's Kiss438 decks
- Vadrok, Apex of Thunder + Frontline Heroism + Snap299 decks
- Vadrok, Apex of Thunder + Cloud Of Faeries + Quasiduplicate + Snap211 decks
- Vadrok, Apex of Thunder + Kykar, Wind's Fury + Snap + Quasiduplicate174 decks
- Vadrok, Apex of Thunder + Kykar, Wind's Fury + Snap + Cackling Counterpart157 decks