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Akim, the Soaring Wind

Legendary Creature — Bird Dinosaur · {2}{U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

Flying Whenever you create one or more tokens for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying. {3}{U}{R}{W}: Creature tokens you control gain double strike until end of turn.

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What Akim, the Soaring Wind 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 · tokensWhenever you create one or more tokens for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
• Activated ability{3}{U}{R}{W}: Creature tokens you control gain double strike until end of turn.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What an Akim, the Soaring Wind deck needs

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

• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• creatures that profit from double strike (it grants the team it)

The Akim, the Soaring Wind deck plan

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

• 13× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 18× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 8× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Akim, the Soaring Wind

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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