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Estinien Varlineau

Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Estinien Varlineau. It gains flying until end of turn. At the beginning of your second main phase, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of your opponents who were dealt combat damage by Estinien Varlineau or a Dragon this turn.

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What Estinien Varlineau 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Estinien Varlineau. It gains flying until end of turn.
• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your second main phase, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of your opponents who were dealt combat damage by Estinien Varlineau or a Dragon this turn.

What an Estinien Varlineau deck needs

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

• noncreature spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Estinien Varlineau deck plan

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

• 29× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 12× 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
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Estinien Varlineau

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.

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