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Anax and Cymede

Anax and Cymede

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {1}{R}{W} · Red/White commander

First strike, vigilance Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Anax and Cymede, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
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What Anax and Cymede 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 Anax and Cymede deck needs

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

The Anax and Cymede deck plan

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

Best cards for Anax and Cymede

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.

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  3. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  4. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  5. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  6. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  7. Cosmogrand Zenith3 mana
  8. Hanweir Garrison3 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  2. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  5. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  6. On Wings of Gold4 mana
  7. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  8. Beamtown Beatstick1 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Erode1 mana
  7. Unwanted Remake1 mana
  8. Angelic Ascension2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon3 mana
  4. Templar Knight2 mana
  5. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  6. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  7. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  8. Loyal Tutor1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  5. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros 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

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