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Iron Man, Armored Avenger

Legendary Artifact Creature — Human Hero · {3}{U} · Blue commander

Flying Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Whenever Iron Man attacks, other attacking modified creatures gain flying until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

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What Iron Man, Armored Avenger 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, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Iron Man attacks, other attacking modified creatures gain flying until end of turn.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What an Iron Man, Armored Avenger deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. 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)
• creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Iron Man, Armored Avenger deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 14× 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Iron Man, Armored 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 Man, Armored Avenger

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

• Iron Man, Armored Avenger + Pensive Professor1,675 decks
• Iron Man, Armored Avenger + Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards + Invisible Woman, Sue Storm784 decks
• Iron Man, Armored Avenger + Fathom Mage722 decks
• Iron Man, Armored Avenger + Generous Patron145 decks
• Iron Man, Armored Avenger + Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards + Scurry Oak34 decks
• Iron Man, Armored Avenger + Mindless Automaton + Teferi's Ageless Insight24 decks

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