Sanar, Innovative First-Year
Vivid — At the beginning of your first main phase, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X nonland cards, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control. For each of those colors, you may exile a card of that color from among the revealed cards. Then shuffle. You may cast the exiled cards this turn.
How Sanar decks play in EDH
Sanar, Innovative First-Year is a Izzet commander in blue and red costing 2U/RU/R, and its legendary creature - goblin sorcerer line shapes the whole deck around it. Its ability is narrow enough that the deck is usually built to protect it and repeat the effect, rather than to go wide. The cards below are the ones Sanar, Innovative First-Year decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $48.60Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (1)
Card draw (2)
Removal (3)
Creatures (2)
Synergy & payoffs (6)
Lands (6)
Build the full 100
Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Sanar, Innovative First-Year decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Sanar, Innovative First-Year deck?
Sanar, Innovative First-Year has a Izzet colour identity, so every card in the deck must be blue and red or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Sanar, Innovative First-Year?
The cards played most often in Sanar, Innovative First-Year decks include Twinned Vision, Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun, Identity Echo. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Sanar, Innovative First-Year deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $48.60 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Sanar, Innovative First-Year deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.