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Flamewar, Brash Veteran // Flamewar, Streetwise Operative

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · {1}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

More Than Meets the Eye {B}{R} (You may cast this card converted for {B}{R}.) Sacrifice another artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Flamewar and convert it. Activate only as a sorcery. {1}, Discard your hand: Put all exiled cards you own with intel counters on them into your hand. Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.) Menace, deathtouch Whenever Flamewar deals combat damage to a player, exile that many cards from the top of your library face down. Put an intel counter on each of them. Convert Flamewar.

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What Flamewar, Brash Veteran // Flamewar, Streetwise Operative actually does

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

• Activated abilitySacrifice another artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Flamewar and convert it. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Activated ability{1}, Discard your hand: Put all exiled cards you own with intel counters on them into your hand.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Flamewar deals combat damage to a player, exile that many cards from the top of your library face down. Put an intel counter on each of them. Convert Flamewar.
• Keyword · more than meets the eyemore than meets the eye
• Keyword · living metalliving metal
• Keyword · menacemenace
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch

What a Flamewar, Brash Veteran // Flamewar, Streetwise Operative deck needs

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

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• cheap artifacts, Treasures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander's outlet eats artifacts, not creatures)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• evasion and protection for the commander (the trigger needs its combat damage to connect)

The Flamewar, Brash Veteran // Flamewar, Streetwise Operative deck plan

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

• 9× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 24× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 8× 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

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