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Knuckles the Echidna

Legendary Creature — Echidna Warrior · {2}{R}{R} · Red commander

Double strike, trample, haste Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Treasure Hunter — At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control thirty or more artifacts, you win the game.

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What Knuckles the Echidna 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 · deals_damageWhenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token.
• Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, if you control thirty or more artifacts, you win the game.
• Keyword · double strikedouble strike
• Keyword · trampletrample
• Keyword · hastehaste
• Keyword · treasure huntertreasure hunter

What a Knuckles the Echidna deck needs

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

• artifacts and Treasure makers (thirty artifacts at your upkeep wins the game)
• many cheap evasive attackers (each connection makes a Treasure)
• keep the Treasures — spend other mana first

The Knuckles the Echidna deck plan

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

• 12× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 18× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 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
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Knuckles the Echidna

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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