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Amy Pond

Legendary Creature — Human · {2}{R} · Red commander

Partner with Rory Williams (When this creature enters, target player may put Rory into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever Amy Pond deals combat damage to a player, choose a suspended card you own and remove that many time counters from it. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

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What Amy Pond 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 · deals_damageWhenever Amy Pond deals combat damage to a player, choose a suspended card you own and remove that many time counters from it.

What an Amy Pond deck needs

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

• suspend cards (each hit removes that many time counters)
• its partner Rory Williams
• evasion and protection for the commander

The Amy Pond deck plan

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

• 12× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 12× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 20× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

Best cards for Amy Pond

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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