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Felothar the Steadfast

Felothar the Steadfast

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {1}{W}{B}{G} · Black/Green/White commander

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness, then discard cards equal to its power.
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What Felothar the Steadfast 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 Felothar the Steadfast deck needs

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

The Felothar the Steadfast deck plan

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

Best cards for Felothar the Steadfast

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  6. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
  7. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  8. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  3. Cleric Class1 mana
  4. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  5. Enduring Vitality3 mana
  6. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  7. Mirror Entity3 mana
  8. Oketra's Monument3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Bear Umbra4 mana
  2. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  3. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  4. Genji Glove5 mana
  5. Betor, Kin to All5 mana
  6. Copperhorn Scout1 mana
  7. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  8. Instill Energy1 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. Old-Growth Troll3 mana
  8. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Path to Exile1 mana
  3. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  4. Defile1 mana
  5. Tragic Slip1 mana
  6. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Fatal Push1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Grim Tutor3 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. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 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. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  8. General's Enforcer2 mana

Combos with Felothar the Steadfast

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Felothar the Steadfast is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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