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Director Nick Fury

Director Nick Fury

Legendary Creature — Human Spy Hero · {U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

Hero spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you attack, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a Hero card from among them and put that card into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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What Director Nick Fury actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Director Nick Fury deck needs

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

The Director Nick Fury deck plan

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

Best cards for Director Nick Fury

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 body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Masked Meower1 mana
  2. Spinneret and Spiderling1 mana
  3. Spectacular Spider-Man2 mana
  4. Spider-Punk2 mana
  5. Spider-Woman, Stunning Savior2 mana
  6. Agent Maria Hill1 mana
  7. Kid Loki1 mana
  8. Quicksilver, Brash Blur1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  2. Replicating Ring3 mana
  3. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  4. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  5. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  6. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  7. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  8. Cosmogrand Zenith3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  5. Pongify1 mana
  6. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  7. Resculpt2 mana
  8. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Open the Armory2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  8. Mystical Tutor1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  3. Wrath of God4 mana
  4. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  5. Chain Reaction4 mana
  6. Day of Judgment4 mana
  7. Street Spasm1 mana
  8. Shatter the Sky4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  4. Skullclamp1 mana
  5. Curiosity1 mana
  6. Wizard Class1 mana
  7. Herald's Horn3 mana
  8. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  5. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  8. Lost in the Maze2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Boros Signet2 mana
  4. Izzet Signet2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Chrome Mox0 mana
  8. Everflowing Chalice0 mana

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