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Astor, Bearer of Blades

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {2}{R}{W} · Red/White commander

When Astor enters, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment or Vehicle card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Equipment you control have equip {1}. Vehicles you control have crew 1.

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What Astor, Bearer of Blades 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 · etbWhen Astor enters, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment or Vehicle card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a r
• Static ability · keyword_grantEquipment you control have equip {1}.
• Static ability · keyword_grantVehicles you control have crew 1.

What an Astor, Bearer of Blades deck needs

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

• Equipment and Vehicles (equip {1}, crew 1; its entry digs for one)
• creatures to wear the Equipment and crew the Vehicles

The Astor, Bearer of Blades deck plan

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

• 4× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 20× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 14× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Astor, Bearer of Blades

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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