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Okoye, Mighty and Adored

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Hero · {2}{G}{W} · Green/White commander

When Okoye enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Whenever that creature attacks the monarch this turn, it gains double strike and trample until end of turn.

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What Okoye, Mighty and Adored 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 Okoye enters, you become the monarch.
• Triggered ability · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Whenever that creature attacks the monarch this turn, it gains double strike and trample until end of turn.

What an Okoye, Mighty and Adored deck needs

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

• +1/+1 counter payoffs (it puts a counter on a creature every combat)
• one big attacker to send at the monarch each turn (it gains double strike and trample)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (each enter makes you the monarch)

The Okoye, Mighty and Adored deck plan

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

• 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 15× 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
• 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 Okoye, Mighty and Adored

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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