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Byrke, Long Ear of the Law

Legendary Creature — Rabbit Soldier · {4}{G}{W} · Green/White commander

Vigilance When Byrke enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

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What Byrke, Long Ear of the Law 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 Byrke enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it.
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What a Byrke, Long Ear of the Law deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• a wide board that attacks every turn (the trigger fires on the attack)

The Byrke, Long Ear of the Law deck plan

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

• 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 11× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 15× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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

Best cards for Byrke, Long Ear of the Law

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 Byrke, Long Ear of the Law

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Byrke, Long Ear of the Law is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Byrke, Long Ear of the Law + Crystalline Crawler + Aggravated Assault5 decks
• Byrke, Long Ear of the Law + Najeela, The Blade-Blossom + Crystalline Crawler1 decks
• Byrke, Long Ear of the Law + Crystalline Crawler + Hellkite Charger

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