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Killian, Decisive Mentor

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · {1}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Whenever an enchantment you control enters, tap up to one target creature and goad it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever one or more creatures that are enchanted by an Aura you control attack, draw a card.

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What Killian, Decisive Mentor 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 · etbWhenever an enchantment you control enters, tap up to one target creature and goad it.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever one or more creatures that are enchanted by an Aura you control attack, draw a card.

What a Killian, Decisive Mentor deck needs

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

• enchantments (its text counts them)
• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)

The Killian, Decisive Mentor deck plan

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

• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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

Best cards for Killian, Decisive Mentor

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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