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Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · {4}{U} · Blue commander

More Than Meets the Eye {3}{U} (You may cast this card converted for {3}{U}.) Flying Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from among artifacts you control: Target player adds that much {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells. Convert Jetfire. Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.) Flying {U}{U}{U}: Convert Jetfire, then adapt 3. (If it has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

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What Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian 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{U}{U}{U}: Convert Jetfire, then adapt 3.
• Keyword · more than meets the eyemore than meets the eye
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · living metalliving metal
• AbilityRemove one or more +1/+1 counters from among artifacts you control: Target player adds that much {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells. Convert Jetfire.

What a Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian deck needs

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

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)

The Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian deck plan

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

• 24× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 15× 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
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian

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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