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Elder Arthur Maxson

Elder Arthur Maxson

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {1}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Creature tokens you control have training. (Whenever a creature token you control attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on that token.) Blind Betrayal — Sacrifice another creature: Elder Arthur Maxson gains indestructible until end of turn.
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What Elder Arthur Maxson actually does

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

What an Elder Arthur Maxson deck needs

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

The Elder Arthur Maxson deck plan

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

Best cards for Elder Arthur Maxson

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 own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

  1. Voice of Victory2 mana
  2. Guide of Souls1 mana
  3. Adeline, Resplendent Cathar3 mana
  4. Ainok Strike Leader2 mana
  5. Jacked Rabbit2 mana
  6. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
  7. Valley Rotcaller2 mana
  8. Sun Titan6 mana

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

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  3. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  4. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  5. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  6. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  7. Cosmogrand Zenith3 mana
  8. Kaya, Geist Hunter3 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  2. Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
  3. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  4. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  5. Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
  6. Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin4 mana
  7. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
  8. Grixis Slavedriver6 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  6. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Bitter Triumph2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Day of Judgment4 mana
  7. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  8. Kaya's Wrath4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  6. General's Enforcer2 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

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