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Adun Oakenshield

Adun Oakenshield

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander

{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
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What Adun Oakenshield 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 Adun Oakenshield deck needs

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

The Adun Oakenshield deck plan

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

Best cards for Adun Oakenshield

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
  4. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  8. Fervor3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  2. Bear Umbra4 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Genji Glove5 mana
  6. Copperhorn Scout1 mana
  7. Éomer, Marshal of Rohan4 mana
  8. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  4. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  5. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  6. Six3 mana
  7. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  6. Terminate2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Beast Within3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  8. Nature's Rhythm2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Asceticism5 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  3. Golgari Signet2 mana
  4. Gruul Signet2 mana
  5. Incubation Druid2 mana
  6. Palladium Myr3 mana
  7. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  8. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana

Combos with Adun Oakenshield

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Adun Oakenshield is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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