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Cid, Freeflier Pilot

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Pilot · {1}{W} · White commander

Equipment and Vehicle spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Jump — During your turn, Cid has flying. {2}, {T}: Return target Equipment or Vehicle card from your graveyard to your hand.

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What Cid, Freeflier Pilot actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{2}, {T}: Return target Equipment or Vehicle card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Static ability · cost_reductionEquipment and Vehicle spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
• Keyword · jumpjump

What a Cid, Freeflier Pilot deck needs

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

• cheap, dense equipment and vehicle spells (it makes them cheaper)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Cid, Freeflier Pilot deck plan

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

• 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 19× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 6× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 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 Cid, Freeflier Pilot

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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