Satsuki, the Living Lore
NEO · rare · Released 2022-02-18
Power
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Derived from the 7 atoms below.
on rate
minor value alone
needs a shell
scales up
one mode
situational
easily answered
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No active conflicts.
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Rationale
Satsuki is a 2-mana 1/3 that accelerates all your Sagas by adding lore counters, enabling chapters to fire faster or letting long Sagas complete sooner; her death trigger provides modal Saga/enchantment-creature recursion, making her a resilient value piece in dedicated Saga shells. She is a defining commander and 99-card inclusion for saga-matters and enchantment-matters strategies, but is nearly dead outside those shells. The activated ability is sorcery-speed only, limiting flexibility.
Learnings (3)
Satsuki's tap ability adds a lore counter to EACH Saga you control simultaneously, meaning a single activation can advance multiple Sagas to their final chapter at once — a critical synergy in multi-Saga builds.
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Her death trigger can return a Saga from the graveyard to hand, allowing a completed Saga to be replayed immediately if she dies on the same turn the Saga finishes — a built-in recursion loop requiring no additional setup.
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Because her activated ability is 'sorcery speed only,' she cannot accelerate Sagas in response to removal or during opponents' turns, making her more vulnerable to being answered before she can generate value than her low mana cost implies.
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Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #4,586