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Commodore Guff
Legendary Planeswalker — Guff · {1}{U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander
At the beginning of your end step, put a loyalty counter on another target planeswalker you control.
+1: Create a 1/1 red Wizard creature token with "{T}: Add {R}. Spend this mana only to cast a planeswalker spell."
−3: You draw X cards and Commodore Guff deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of planeswalkers you control.
Commodore Guff can be your commander.
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What Commodore Guff 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, put a loyalty counter on another target planeswalker you control.
- Activated ability+1: Create a 1/1 red Wizard creature token with "{T}: Add {R}. Spend this mana only to cast a planeswalker spell."
- Activated ability−3: You draw X cards and Commodore Guff deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of planeswalkers you control.
What a Commodore Guff deck needs
Plays as superfriends. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- planeswalkers (it adds loyalty to another each end step; its minus scales with them)
- protection for your planeswalkers
The Commodore Guff deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 18× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- 6× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 6× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Commodore Guff
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.
A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- Narset, Parter of Veils3 mana
- Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged1 mana
- Saheeli, Sublime Artificer3 mana
- Teferi, Time Raveler3 mana
- Tezzeret, Cruel Captain3 mana
- Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger2 mana
- Jace Reawakened2 mana
- Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound2 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Dreamtide Whale3 mana
- Flux Channeler3 mana
- Patrolling Peacemaker3 mana
Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Surgehacker Mech4 mana
- Oath of Teferi5 mana
- Devouring Hellion3 mana
- Urza Assembles the Titans5 mana
- Heart of Bogardan4 mana
- Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass2 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
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