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Appa, Loyal Sky Bison

Legendary Creature — Bison Ally · {4}{W}{W} · White commander

Flying Whenever Appa enters or attacks, choose one — • Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn. • Airbend another target nonland permanent you control. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.)

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What Appa, Loyal Sky Bison 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 Appa enters or attacks, choose one —
• Keyword · flyingflying

What an Appa, Loyal Sky Bison deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Appa, Loyal Sky Bison deck plan

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

• 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Appa, Loyal Sky Bison

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.

Combos with Appa, Loyal Sky Bison

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Appa, Loyal Sky Bison is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Appa, Loyal Sky Bison + Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Avatar Aang6,699 decks
• Appa, Loyal Sky Bison + Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Urza's Incubator1,373 decks
• Appa, Loyal Sky Bison + Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Aang, Swift Savior866 decks
• Appa, Loyal Sky Bison + Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Aang, The Last Airbender713 decks
• Appa, Loyal Sky Bison + Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Semblance Anvil689 decks
• Appa, Loyal Sky Bison + Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius + Aang, Airbending Master559 decks

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