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Fíli the Pathfinder

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Scout · {3}{W} · White commander

Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.) As long as you have an enduring story, creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever Fíli or another nontoken Dwarf you control enters, create a 2/2 red Dwarf creature token.

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What Fíli the Pathfinder 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 · etbWhenever Fíli or another nontoken Dwarf you control enters, create a 2/2 red Dwarf creature token.
• Static ability · anthemAs long as you have an enduring story, creatures you control get +1/+1.
• Keyword · storiedstoried

What a Fíli the Pathfinder deck needs

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

• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• a wide board of creatures and tokens for the team pump
• dwarf creatures (its text counts them)

The Fíli the Pathfinder deck plan

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

• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 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

Best cards for Fíli the Pathfinder

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 Fíli the Pathfinder

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

• Fíli the Pathfinder + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar3 decks

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