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Arcade Gannon

Arcade Gannon

Legendary Creature — Human Doctor · {2}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. Put a quest counter on Arcade Gannon. For Auld Lang Syne — Once during each of your turns, you may cast an artifact or Human spell from your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to the number of quest counters on Arcade Gannon.
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What Arcade Gannon 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 Arcade Gannon deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Arcade Gannon

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Reconnaissance1 mana
  2. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  3. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  4. Freed from the Real3 mana
  5. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  6. Retreat to Coralhelm3 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Umbral Mantle3 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Arcade Gannon4 mana

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

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mother of Runes1 mana
  3. Serra Ascendant1 mana
  4. Soul Warden1 mana
  5. Soul's Attendant1 mana
  6. Grand Abolisher2 mana
  7. Guide of Souls1 mana
  8. Mikaeus, the Lunarch1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Brain Freeze2 mana
  3. Mindcrank2 mana
  4. Codex Shredder1 mana
  5. Hedron Crab1 mana
  6. Thought Scour1 mana
  7. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Displacement Wave2 mana
  8. Harsh Mercy3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Transmute Artifact2 mana
  5. Open the Armory2 mana
  6. Whir of Invention3 mana
  7. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  8. Enlightened Tutor1 mana

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