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Azula, Ruthless Firebender

Legendary Creature — Human Noble · {2}{B} · Black commander

Firebending 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, add {R}. This mana lasts until end of combat.) Whenever Azula attacks, you may discard a card. Then you get an experience counter for each player who discarded a card this turn. {2}{B}: Until end of turn, Azula gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have and gains menace.

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What Azula, Ruthless Firebender 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 Azula attacks, you may discard a card. Then you get an experience counter for each player who discarded a card this turn.
• Activated ability{2}{B}: Until end of turn, Azula gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have and gains menace.
• Keyword · firebendingfirebending

What an Azula, Ruthless Firebender deck needs

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

• discard for everyone (each player who discarded is an experience counter)
• mana to pump it and haste, evasion and protection for the commander

The Azula, Ruthless Firebender deck plan

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

• 12× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 8× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 10× Refill your hand
• 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Azula, Ruthless Firebender

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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