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Ant-Man, Colony Commander

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

Whenever Ant-Man attacks, you may pay {1}. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Whenever you put a +1/+1 counter on a creature, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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What Ant-Man, Colony Commander 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 · attackWhenever Ant-Man attacks, you may pay {1}. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever you put a +1/+1 counter on a creature, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

What an Ant-Man, Colony Commander deck needs

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

• creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Ant-Man, Colony Commander deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× 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

Best cards for Ant-Man, Colony Commander

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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