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Arahbo, the First Fang

Arahbo, the First Fang

Legendary Creature — Cat Avatar · {2}{W} · White commander

Other Cats you control get +1/+1. Whenever Arahbo or another nontoken Cat you control enters, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.
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What Arahbo, the First Fang actually does

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What an Arahbo, the First Fang deck needs

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

The Arahbo, the First Fang deck plan

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

Best cards for Arahbo, the First Fang

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.

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Ocelot Pride1 mana
  2. Ajani's Pridemate2 mana
  3. Helpful Hunter2 mana
  4. Lion Sash2 mana
  5. Arcbound Mouser1 mana
  6. Garrison Cat1 mana
  7. Leonin Elder1 mana
  8. Leonin Vanguard1 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
  2. Spirited Companion2 mana
  3. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  4. Loran of the Third Path3 mana
  5. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  6. Helpful Hunter2 mana
  7. Loyal Warhound2 mana
  8. Wall of Omens2 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  4. Flickerwisp3 mana
  5. Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
  6. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  7. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  8. Felidar Guardian4 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  5. Gideon's Memorial2 mana
  6. Mite Overseer4 mana
  7. Phantom General4 mana
  8. Patchwork Banner3 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Generous Gift3 mana
  5. Erode1 mana
  6. Unwanted Remake1 mana
  7. Angelic Ascension2 mana
  8. You Cannot Pass!1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Templar Knight2 mana
  4. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  5. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  6. Loyal Tutor1 mana
  7. Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
  8. Search for Glory3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Day of Judgment4 mana
  4. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  5. Split Up3 mana
  6. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  7. Depopulate4 mana
  8. No Witnesses4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Herald's Horn3 mana
  4. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  8. Enduring Innocence3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

Combos with Arahbo, the First Fang

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Arahbo, the First Fang is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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