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Hawkeye, Trick Shot

Legendary Creature — Human Archer Hero · {3}{R} · Red commander

Reach, first strike Whenever Hawkeye or another Hero you control enters, it deals damage equal to the number of Heroes you control to any target.

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What Hawkeye, Trick Shot 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 Hawkeye or another Hero you control enters, it deals damage equal to the number of Heroes you control to any target.
• Keyword · reachreach
• Keyword · first strikefirst strike

What a Hawkeye, Trick Shot deck needs

Plays as hero 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)
• hero creatures (its text counts them)

The Hawkeye, Trick Shot deck plan

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

• 18× A creature the commander's own number counts — every qualifier it names (type, non-type, power cap, keyword) kept
• 8× A token maker whose tokens are creatures the commander's number counts — a repeatable one first
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 6× A card that rewards the deck's creature type as a whole — type cost cutters, type draw, "shares a creature type" pumps
• 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
• 9× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Hawkeye, Trick Shot

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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