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Edward Kenway

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin Pirate · {2}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each tapped Assassin, Pirate, and/or Vehicle you control. Whenever a Vehicle you control deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of that player's library, then exile it face down. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

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What Edward Kenway 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each tapped Assassin, Pirate, and/or Vehicle you control.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever a Vehicle you control deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of that player's library, then exile it face down. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

What an Edward Kenway deck needs

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

• Vehicles, Assassins and Pirates (tapped ones make Treasure; Vehicles hitting steal cards)
• crew bodies

The Edward Kenway deck plan

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

• 10× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 14× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Edward Kenway

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.

Combos with Edward Kenway

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Edward Kenway is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Edward Kenway + Time Sieve5,163 decks

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