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Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

Legendary Creature — Bird Bard · {W/B}{W/B} · Black/White commander

Flying, first strike, lifelink When Abigale enters, up to one other target creature loses all abilities. Put a flying counter, a first strike counter, and a lifelink counter on that creature.
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What Abigale, Eloquent First-Year actually does

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

What an Abigale, Eloquent First-Year deck needs

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

The Abigale, Eloquent First-Year deck plan

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

Best cards for Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

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.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  4. Flickerwisp3 mana
  5. Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
  6. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  7. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  8. Felidar Guardian4 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  3. Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
  4. Spirited Companion2 mana
  5. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  6. Cauldron Familiar1 mana
  7. Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
  8. Loran of the Third Path3 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  6. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Bitter Triumph2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Day of Judgment4 mana
  7. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  8. Kaya's Wrath4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Cleric Class1 mana
  3. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  4. Mirror Entity3 mana
  5. Oketra's Monument3 mana
  6. Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
  7. Nightscape Familiar2 mana
  8. Hazoret's Monument3 mana

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