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Zurgo and Ojutai

Zurgo and Ojutai

Legendary Creature — Orc Dragon · {2}{U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

Flying, haste Zurgo and Ojutai has hexproof as long as it entered this turn. Whenever one or more Dragons you control deal combat damage to a player or battle, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You may return one of those Dragons to its owner's hand.
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What Zurgo and Ojutai actually does

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What a Zurgo and Ojutai deck wants

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Best cards for Zurgo and Ojutai

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.

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
  2. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  3. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  4. Frostcliff Siege3 mana
  5. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  6. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  7. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  8. Cloudshredder Sliver2 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Dragonlord Ojutai // Dragonlord Ojutai0 mana
  2. Shivan Devastator1 mana
  3. Slumbering Dragon1 mana
  4. Deceptive Frostkite2 mana
  5. Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw2 mana
  6. Reckless Barbarian2 mana
  7. Sprite Dragon2 mana
  8. Atsushi, the Blazing Sky4 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  5. Pongify1 mana
  6. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  7. Resculpt2 mana
  8. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  6. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  7. Citywide Bust3 mana
  8. Displacement Wave2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Open the Armory2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  8. Mystical Tutor1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  5. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  6. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  7. Cryptothrall4 mana
  8. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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