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Human Torch, Johnny Storm

Legendary Creature — Human Hero · {2}{R} · Red commander

Flying Whenever you draw a card, if you control another Hero, Human Torch deals 1 damage to target opponent. Power-up — {6}{R}: Put three +1/+1 counters on Human Torch. (Activate each power-up ability only once. Reduce the cost by his mana cost if he entered this turn.)

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What Human Torch, Johnny Storm 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 · drawWhenever you draw a card, if you control another Hero, Human Torch deals 1 damage to target opponent.
• Activated ability{6}{R}: Put three +1/+1 counters on Human Torch.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · power-uppower-up

What a Human Torch, Johnny Storm deck needs

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

• card draw, wheels and cantrips (each card drawn triggers it)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• mana rocks and dorks beyond the curve (its ability turns spare mana into value)
• hero creatures (its text counts them)

The Human Torch, Johnny Storm deck plan

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

• 10× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 6× 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

Best cards for Human Torch, Johnny Storm

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 Human Torch, Johnny Storm

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Human Torch, Johnny Storm is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Human Torch, Johnny Storm + Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards + The Thing, Ben Grimm + Invisible Woman, Sue Storm3,553 decks
• Human Torch, Johnny Storm + Curiosity382 decks
• Human Torch, Johnny Storm + Ophidian Eye117 decks
• Human Torch, Johnny Storm + Keen Sense92 decks
• Human Torch, Johnny Storm + Snake Umbra88 decks
• Human Torch, Johnny Storm + Niv-Mizzet, Visionary88 decks

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