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Deadpool, Trading Card
Legendary Creature — Mutant Mercenary Hero · {2}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
What Deadpool, Trading Card 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 · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life.
- Activated ability{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Each other player draws a card.
- Static ability · copy_engineAs Deadpool enters, you may exchange his text box and another creature's.
What a Deadpool, Trading Card deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
- punishers that make opponents' draws hurt (it makes the whole table draw)
- mana rocks and dorks beyond the curve (its ability turns spare mana into value)
The Deadpool, Trading Card deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 15× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 13× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
- 13× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- 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
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Deadpool, Trading Card
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 whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Plaguecrafter3 mana
Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
- Curse of Opulence1 mana
- Mindcrank2 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
- Kederekt Parasite1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Scrawling Crawler3 mana
Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Astral Cornucopia0 mana
- Mox Jasper0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Deadpool, Trading Card
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Deadpool, Trading Card is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Deadpool, Trading Card + Dargo, The Shipwrecker + Ruthless Technomancer
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