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Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Legendary Creature — Human Spy Hero · {W} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander

Power-up — {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Put two +1/+1 counters on Nick Fury, then look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a Hero, Equipment, or Vehicle card from among them onto the battlefield. If it's a double-faced card, you may transform it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Activate each power-up ability only once. Reduce the cost by his mana cost if he entered this turn.)

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What Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Put two +1/+1 counters on Nick Fury, then look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a Hero, Equipment, or Vehicle card from among them onto the battlefield. If it's a d
• Keyword · power-uppower-up

What a Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. deck needs

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

• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• hero creatures (its text counts them)

The Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. deck plan

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

• 30× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 9× 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
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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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