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Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr

Legendary Creature — Kree Soldier Hero · {1}{R/W} · Red/White commander

Whenever another creature you control enters and whenever you activate a power-up ability, put a +1/+1 counter on Marvel Boy.

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What Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr 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 another creature you control enters and whenever you activate a power-up ability, put a +1/+1 counter on Marvel Boy.

What a Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr deck needs

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

• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• power-up creatures (it rewards the mechanic by name)

The Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr deck plan

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

• 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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

Best cards for Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr

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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