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Bifur, Melodic Rider

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Bard · {4}{R/W}{R/W} · Red/White commander

Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.) Whenever Bifur enters or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. As long as you have an enduring story, if a triggered ability of a Dwarf you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

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What Bifur, Melodic Rider 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 Bifur enters or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Replacement effect · trigger_doublerAs long as you have an enduring story, if a triggered ability of a Dwarf you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
• Keyword · storiedstoried

What a Bifur, Melodic Rider deck needs

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

• permanents with attack triggers, more attackers and extra combats (its doubler multiplies every attack trigger)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
• dwarf creatures (its text counts them)

The Bifur, Melodic Rider deck plan

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

• 14× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 4× An extra combat phase — each one re-fires every attack trigger
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

Best cards for Bifur, Melodic Rider

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.

Combos with Bifur, Melodic Rider

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Bifur, Melodic Rider is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Bifur, Melodic Rider + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Ashnod's Altar
• Bifur, Melodic Rider + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Viscera Seer
• Bifur, Melodic Rider + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Carrion Feeder
• Bifur, Melodic Rider + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Bloodflow Connoisseur
• Bifur, Melodic Rider + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Bartolomé Del Presidio
• Bifur, Melodic Rider + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Yahenni, Undying Partisan

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