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Butch DeLoria, Tunnel Snake

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · {1}{B} · Black commander

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Tunnel Snakes Rule! — Whenever Butch DeLoria attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other Rogue and/or Snake you control. {1}{B}: Put a menace counter on another target creature. It becomes a Rogue in addition to its other types.

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What Butch DeLoria, Tunnel Snake 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 Butch DeLoria attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other Rogue and/or Snake you control.
• Activated ability{1}{B}: Put a menace counter on another target creature. It becomes a Rogue in addition to its other types.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Butch DeLoria, Tunnel Snake deck needs

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

• bodies worth turning into Rogues — the commander grants the type itself, so a printed rogue package is optional, not the plan
• snake creatures (its text counts them)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Butch DeLoria, Tunnel Snake deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 4× 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 Butch DeLoria, Tunnel Snake

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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