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Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

Legendary Creature — Spirit Warrior · {1}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Whenever you cast a white spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each legendary creature you control. They gain vigilance until end of turn. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each legendary creature you control. They gain menace until end of turn.
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What Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 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 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness deck needs

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

The Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness deck plan

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

Best cards for Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

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 cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  7. Walking Ballista0 mana
  8. Zuran Orb0 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
  2. Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
  3. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  4. Grateful Apparition2 mana
  5. Metastatic Evangel2 mana
  6. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  7. Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
  8. Generous Pup2 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  6. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Bitter Triumph2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Day of Judgment4 mana
  7. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  8. Kaya's Wrath4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. The One Ring4 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

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Cleric Class1 mana
  3. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  4. Mirror Entity3 mana
  5. Oketra's Monument3 mana
  6. Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
  7. Nightscape Familiar2 mana
  8. Hazoret's Monument3 mana

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