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Absorbing Man

Legendary Creature — Human Villain · {1}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander

Vigilance At the beginning of your first main phase, until your next turn, Absorbing Man becomes a copy of up to one target artifact, non-Aura enchantment, or land, except his name is Absorbing Man, he's a legendary 4/4 Human Villain creature in addition to his other types, and he has vigilance.

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What Absorbing Man actually does

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

• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, until your next turn, Absorbing Man becomes a copy of up to one target artifact, non-Aura enchantment, or land, except his name is Absorbing Man, he's a lege
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What an Absorbing Man deck needs

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

• powerful artifacts, enchantments and lands to copy (each turn it becomes a copy of one, keeping a 4/4 body)

The Absorbing Man deck plan

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

• 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 10× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 16× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

Best cards for Absorbing Man

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.

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