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Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger
Legendary Creature — Human Kree Hero · {5}{R}{W} · Red/White commander
What Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger 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 · countersWhenever you put one or more counters on another creature, if it's not a Kree, you may put the same number and kind of counters on Captain Marvel.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · double strikedouble strike
- Keyword · indestructibleindestructible
What a Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger deck needs
Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- counters of every kind on your other creatures (it copies each placement onto itself)
The Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 28× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 9× 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
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger
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.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp1 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
- Generous Pup2 mana
- Martyr for the Cause2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon3 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Boros Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
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