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Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent

Legendary Creature — Human Coward Villain · {1}{B} · Black commander

Whenever Bob attacks alone, return him to his owner's hand. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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What Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent 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 Bob attacks alone, return him to his owner's hand. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

What a Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent deck needs

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

• drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
• one big attacker each turn — exalted, pump, equipment and evasion (it rewards attacking alone)

The Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent deck plan

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

• 15× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 10× 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
• 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
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent

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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