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Moira Brown, Guide Author

Legendary Creature — Human Citizen · {1}{R}{W} · Red/White commander

When Moira Brown enters, create a colorless Book Equipment artifact token named Wasteland Survival Guide with "Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each quest counter among permanents you control" and equip {1}. Whenever you attack, put a quest counter on target nonland permanent you control.

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What Moira Brown, Guide Author 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 Moira Brown enters, create a colorless Book Equipment artifact token named Wasteland Survival Guide with "Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each quest counter among permanents you control" and equ
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever you attack, put a quest counter on target nonland permanent you control.

What a Moira Brown, Guide Author deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
• a wide board that attacks every turn (the trigger fires on the attack)

The Moira Brown, Guide Author 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
• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 10× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× 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
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Moira Brown, Guide Author

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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