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Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Knight // Legendary Enchantment Creature — Saga Dragon · {3}{W} · White commander

Dragonfire Dive — During your turn, Dion and other Knights you control have flying. When Dion enters, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token. {4}{W}{W}, {T}: Exile Dion, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery. (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.) I, II — Wings of Light — Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control. Those creatures gain flying until end of turn. III — Gigaflare — Destroy target permanent. Exile Bahamut, then return it to the battlefield (front face up). Flying

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What Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 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 Dion enters, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.
• Activated ability{4}{W}{W}, {T}: Exile Dion, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Static ability · keyword_grantDuring your turn, Dion and other Knights you control have flying.
• Keyword · dragonfire divedragonfire dive
• Keyword · flyingflying
• AbilityI, II — Wings of Light — Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control. Those creatures gain flying until end of turn.
• AbilityIII — Gigaflare — Destroy target permanent. Exile Bahamut, then return it to the battlefield .

What a Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light deck needs

Plays as knight typal. 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)
• creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
• creatures that profit from flying (it grants the team it)
• knight creatures (its text counts them)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light deck plan

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

• 8× 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
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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

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