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What Memnarch, the Warden 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 · etbWhen Memnarch enters, create two 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Memnarch attacks, draw a card for each artifact you control.
• Keyword · indestructibleindestructible

What a Memnarch, the Warden deck needs

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

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Memnarch, the Warden deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× 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

Best cards for Memnarch, the Warden

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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