Sanar, Innovative First-Year

Sanar is a 4cmc UR Goblin Sorcerer whose Vivid trigger at the start of your first main phase lets you exile up to X nonland cards (one per color among your permanents) and cast them this turn, acting as a repeatable top-deck impulse-draw engine that scales with your color diversity. Signature in spellslinger and multicolor midrange shells where having 3-4 colors in play reliably gives 3-4 free looks each turn; best in Izzet or broader multicolor shells. The engine is heavily gated by how many colors you can actually display on permanents, making it weaker in mono/two-color builds and slow to come online.

• Sanar's Vivid trigger counts colors among ALL permanents you control (lands, artifacts with color indicators, enchantments, etc.), so running dual-faced cards and colored non-creature permanents meaningfully increases X without requiring extra creatures.

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• Because Sanar exiles the cards and lets you cast them 'this turn,' cards exiled this way that aren't cast by end of turn are effectively lost — sequencing matters and you should plan mana before the trigger resolves.

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• In a two-color UR shell Sanar reliably gets X=2 (revealing 2 cards), which is decent but not exceptional; the card scales dramatically in 4-5 color builds where X=4-5 provides near-Fact-or-Fiction levels of selection every turn.

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• EDHREC rank: #18,101