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Hawkeye, Master Marksman

Legendary Creature — Human Archer Hero · {1}{R} · Red commander

Reach, first strike Trick Arrows — Whenever Hawkeye becomes tapped, you may pay {1} up to three times. When you do, choose up to that many — • Net — Target creature can't block this turn. • Explosive — Hawkeye deals 2 damage to target player. • Boomerang — Discard a card, then draw a card.

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What Hawkeye, Master Marksman 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 · otherWhenever Hawkeye becomes tapped, you may pay {1} up to three times. When you do, choose up to that many —
• Keyword · reachreach
• Keyword · first strikefirst strike
• Keyword · trick arrowstrick arrows

What a Hawkeye, Master Marksman deck needs

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

• untap effects and ways to tap it — attacking, crewing, convoke (each time it becomes tapped it triggers)

The Hawkeye, Master Marksman deck plan

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

• 9× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
• 8× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 5× Make opponents draw — for a commander that punishes their draw, the punishment is the deck's damage source
• 4× Wheel — every player discards or shuffles away their hand and draws a new one
• 3× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
• 5× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
• 4× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 8× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Hawkeye, Master Marksman

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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