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Cleon, Merry Champion

Cleon, Merry Champion

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {2}{R} · Red commander

Double strike Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Cleon, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until the end of your next turn.
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What Cleon, Merry Champion actually does

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What a Cleon, Merry Champion deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Cleon, Merry Champion

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.

Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander

  1. Ugin's Labyrinth0 mana
  2. Party Thrasher2 mana
  3. Passionate Archaeologist2 mana
  4. Endless Sands0 mana
  5. Mimic Vat3 mana
  6. Squee, the Immortal3 mana
  7. Valakut Exploration3 mana
  8. Bag of Holding1 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Okaun, Eye of Chaos0 mana
  2. Twinferno2 mana
  3. Fireshrieker3 mana
  4. Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave3 mana
  5. Blacksmith's Talent1 mana
  6. Akroan Crusader1 mana
  7. Rosnakht, Heir of Rohgahh1 mana
  8. Solphim, Mayhem Dominus4 mana

A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Walking Ballista0 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Mishra's Bauble0 mana
  5. Sol Talisman0 mana
  6. Tormod's Crypt0 mana
  7. Urza's Bauble0 mana
  8. Chrome Mox0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Breaking Point3 mana
  3. Crack the Earth1 mana
  4. Kozilek's Return3 mana
  5. Akki Blizzard-Herder2 mana
  6. Devastating Dreams2 mana
  7. Tectonic Break2 mana
  8. Tremble2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Goblin Recruiter2 mana
  2. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  3. Dragon's Approach3 mana
  4. Flamekin Harbinger1 mana
  5. Goblin Matron3 mana
  6. Sarkhan's Triumph3 mana
  7. Dwarven Recruiter3 mana
  8. Myr Kinsmith4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. The One Ring4 mana
  3. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  4. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  5. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  6. Artist's Talent2 mana
  7. Fear of Missing Out2 mana
  8. Key to the City2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Cryptothrall4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Commander's Plate1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Akroma's Memorial7 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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