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Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny
Legendary Artifact Creature — Human Hero · {2}{U} · Blue commander
Flying, vigilance
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
{T}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact card, draw a card.
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What Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{T}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact card, draw a card.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
What an Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny deck needs
Plays as tap engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)
- a dense artifact count (its tap draws a card when the top card is an artifact)
The Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 10× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny
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.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana
- Haunted Cloak3 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Freed from the Real3 mana
- Pemmin's Aura3 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Unstoppable Plan3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
- Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
- Sword of the Paruns4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Icy Prison2 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
- Perplexing Test5 mana
- Cyclonic Rift2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny + Sensei's Divining Top + Mind Over Matter + Etherium Sculptor2 decks
- Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny + Sensei's Divining Top + Mind Over Matter + Cloud Key2 decks
- Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny + Sensei's Divining Top + Mind Over Matter + The Immortal Sun2 decks
- Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny + Sensei's Divining Top + Mind Over Matter + Ballad Of The Black Flag1 decks
- Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny + Sensei's Divining Top + Mind Over Matter + Shuri, Wakandan Inventor1 decks
- Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny + Sensei's Divining Top + Mind Over Matter + Foundry Inspector1 decks