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Zada, Hedron Grinder

Zada, Hedron Grinder

Legendary Creature — Goblin Ally · {3}{R} · Red commander

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only Zada, copy that spell for each other creature you control that the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures.
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What Zada, Hedron Grinder actually does

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

What a Zada, Hedron Grinder deck needs

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

The Zada, Hedron Grinder deck plan

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

Best cards for Zada, Hedron Grinder

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.

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Faithless Looting1 mana
  2. Gamble1 mana
  3. Lightning Bolt1 mana
  4. Vandalblast1 mana
  5. Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege0 mana
  6. Pyroblast1 mana
  7. Red Elemental Blast1 mana
  8. Redirect Lightning1 mana

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Faithless Looting1 mana
  2. Gamble1 mana
  3. Lightning Bolt1 mana
  4. Vandalblast1 mana
  5. Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege0 mana
  6. Pyroblast1 mana
  7. Red Elemental Blast1 mana
  8. Redirect Lightning1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Goblin Recruiter2 mana
  2. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  3. Goblin Matron3 mana
  4. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  5. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  6. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  7. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  8. Gamble1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  8. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Pashalik Mons3 mana
  2. Replicating Ring3 mana
  3. Siege-Gang Lieutenant4 mana
  4. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Hanweir Garrison3 mana
  7. Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana
  8. Field of the Dead0 mana

Combos with Zada, Hedron Grinder

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Zada, Hedron Grinder is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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