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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 needs

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

The Arcade Gannon deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards 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. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

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

  1. Freed from the Real3 mana
  2. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Unstoppable Plan3 mana
  6. Genji Glove5 mana
  7. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  8. White Plume Adventurer3 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. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  2. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  3. Millikin2 mana
  4. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  5. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  6. Fraying Sanity3 mana
  7. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  8. Sequestered Stash0 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. Generous Gift3 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

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  3. Wrath of God4 mana
  4. Day of Judgment4 mana
  5. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  6. Split Up3 mana
  7. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  8. Depopulate4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Herald's Horn3 mana
  7. Rhystic Study3 mana
  8. Archivist of Oghma2 mana

Combos with Arcade Gannon

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Arcade Gannon is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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