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Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

First strike At the beginning of combat on your turn, if another Human entered the battlefield under your control this turn, create two 2/2 red Human Knight creature tokens with trample and haste. Then if you control six or more Humans, draw a card.
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What Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 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 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden deck needs

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

The Éowyn, Shieldmaiden deck plan

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

Best cards for Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

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.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Akroma's Will4 mana
  3. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  4. Wonder4 mana
  5. Reverse the Polarity3 mana
  6. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  7. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  8. The Wind Crystal4 mana

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

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mother of Runes1 mana
  3. Serra Ascendant1 mana
  4. Soul Warden1 mana
  5. Soul's Attendant1 mana
  6. Grand Abolisher2 mana
  7. Dragon's Rage Channeler1 mana
  8. Dragonmaster Outcast1 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  5. Gideon's Memorial2 mana
  6. Mite Overseer4 mana
  7. Phantom General4 mana
  8. Patchwork Banner3 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

Combos with Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

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

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