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Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander

Flying, lifelink Ward—Discard a card. Whenever a modified creature you control attacks, double the number of each kind of counter on it. Then for each nontoken permanent attached to it, create a token that's a copy of that permanent attached to that creature.

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What Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 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 a modified creature you control attacks, double the number of each kind of counter on it. Then for each nontoken permanent attached to it, create a token that's a copy of that permanent attac
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink
• Keyword · wardward
• AbilityWard—Discard a card.

What an Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain deck needs

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

• high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• a wide board that attacks every turn (the trigger fires on the attack)

The Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain deck plan

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

• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

Best cards for Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

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.

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