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Longshot, Rebel Bowman

Legendary Creature — Human Rebel Ally · {3}{R} · Red commander

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Longshot deals 2 damage to each opponent.

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What Longshot, Rebel Bowman 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a noncreature spell, Longshot deals 2 damage to each opponent.
• Static ability · cost_reductionNoncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
• Keyword · reachreach

What a Longshot, Rebel Bowman 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)
• noncreature spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)

The Longshot, Rebel Bowman deck plan

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

• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 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 Longshot, Rebel Bowman

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 Longshot, Rebel Bowman

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Longshot, Rebel Bowman is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Longshot, Rebel Bowman + Birgi, God Of Storytelling + Sensei's Divining Top2,196 decks
• Longshot, Rebel Bowman + Sensei's Divining Top + Mystic Forge1,423 decks
• Longshot, Rebel Bowman + Sensei's Divining Top + Experimental Frenzy323 decks
• Longshot, Rebel Bowman + Sensei's Divining Top + The Reality Chip226 decks
• Longshot, Rebel Bowman + Sensei's Divining Top + Elsha Of The Infinite209 decks
• Longshot, Rebel Bowman + Sensei's Divining Top + Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass146 decks

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