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Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier // Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier · {W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Lifelink Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities. Disturb {2}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.) Flying Whenever one or more creature cards are put into graveyards from anywhere, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") If Dennick would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

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What Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition 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 · otherWhenever one or more creature cards are put into graveyards from anywhere, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn.
• Replacement effect · otherIf Dennick would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink
• Keyword · disturbdisturb
• Keyword · flyingflying
• AbilityCards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

What a Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition deck needs

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

• creature cards going to graveyards — sacrifice and self-mill (its disturbed side investigates once a turn)

The Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition deck plan

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

• 33× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 2× Answer a whole board at once
• 8× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

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