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Old One Eye

Legendary Creature — Tyranid · {5}{G} · Green commander

Trample Other creatures you control have trample. When Old One Eye enters, create a 5/5 green Tyranid creature token. Fast Healing — At the beginning of your first main phase, you may discard two cards. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

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What Old One Eye 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 Old One Eye enters, create a 5/5 green Tyranid creature token.
• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, you may discard two cards. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Static ability · keyword_grantOther creatures you control have trample.
• Keyword · trampletrample
• Keyword · fast healingfast healing

What an Old One Eye deck needs

Plays as team keywords. 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)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• creatures that profit from trample (it grants the team it)

The Old One Eye deck plan

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

• 9× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 6× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 8× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 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 Old One Eye

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.

Combos with Old One Eye

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Old One Eye is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Old One Eye + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar10 decks

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