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Merry, Esquire of Rohan

Legendary Creature — Halfling Knight · {R}{W} · Red/White commander

Haste Merry has first strike as long as it's equipped. Whenever you attack with Merry and another legendary creature, draw a card.

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What Merry, Esquire of Rohan 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 · attackWhenever you attack with Merry and another legendary creature, draw a card.
• Keyword · hastehaste

What a Merry, Esquire of Rohan deck needs

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

• legendary creatures to attack alongside it (each such attack draws)
• equipment (it has first strike while equipped)

The Merry, Esquire of Rohan deck plan

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

• 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 12× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 8× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

Best cards for Merry, Esquire of Rohan

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