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Dáin Ironfoot

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Warrior · {2}{R} · Red commander

When Dáin enters, create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Axe with "Equipped creature gets +1/+0" and equip {2}. When you do, attach it to target creature you control. Whenever Dáin attacks, each equipped attacking creature gains double strike until end of turn.

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What Dáin Ironfoot 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 Dáin enters, create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Axe with "Equipped creature gets +1/+0" and equip {2}. When you do, attach it to target creature you control.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Dáin attacks, each equipped attacking creature gains double strike until end of turn.

What a Dáin Ironfoot 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)
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Dáin Ironfoot deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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

Best cards for Dáin Ironfoot

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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