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Iron Lad, Young Avenger

Legendary Artifact Creature — Human Hero · {2}{U/R} · Red/Blue commander

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

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What Iron Lad, Young Avenger actually does

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

• Static ability · cost_reductionNoncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What an Iron Lad, Young Avenger deck needs

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

• cheap, dense noncreature spells (it makes them cheaper)
• cheap instants and sorceries (every one you cast feeds it)

The Iron Lad, Young Avenger deck plan

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

• 33× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 2× Answer a whole board at once
• 8× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Iron Lad, Young Avenger

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 Iron Lad, Young Avenger

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Iron Lad, Young Avenger is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Iron Lad, Young Avenger + Sensei's Divining Top + Mystic Forge318 decks
• Iron Lad, Young Avenger + Sensei's Divining Top + Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass209 decks
• Iron Lad, Young Avenger + Sensei's Divining Top + The Reality Chip168 decks
• Iron Lad, Young Avenger + Birgi, God Of Storytelling + Sensei's Divining Top90 decks
• Iron Lad, Young Avenger + Sensei's Divining Top + Fateful Discovery56 decks
• Iron Lad, Young Avenger + Sensei's Divining Top + One With The Multiverse47 decks

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