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Metalhead

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Turtle · {4}{U} · Red/Blue commander

When Metalhead enters, return up to one other target artifact or creature to its owner's hand. {R}, Sacrifice another artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Metalhead. He gains menace and haste until end of turn.

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What Metalhead 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 Metalhead enters, return up to one other target artifact or creature to its owner's hand.
• Activated ability{R}, Sacrifice another artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Metalhead. He gains menace and haste until end of turn.

What a Metalhead deck needs

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

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• cheap artifacts, Treasures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander's outlet eats artifacts, not creatures)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Metalhead deck plan

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

• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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
• 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Metalhead

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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