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Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · {3}{U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

More Than Meets the Eye {2}{U}{R}{W} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{U}{R}{W}.) At the beginning of each end step, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When Optimus Prime dies, return it to the battlefield converted under its owner's control. Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.) Trample Whenever you attack, bolster 2. The chosen creature gains trample until end of turn. When that creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, convert Optimus Prime.

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What Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 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 · end_stepAt the beginning of each end step, bolster 1.
• Triggered ability · deathWhen Optimus Prime dies, return it to the battlefield converted under its owner's control.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever you attack, bolster 2. The chosen creature gains trample until end of turn. When that creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, convert Optimus Prime.
• Keyword · more than meets the eyemore than meets the eye
• Keyword · living metalliving metal
• Keyword · trampletrample

What an Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader deck needs

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

• +1/+1 counter payoffs and attackers (it bolsters every end step and every attack)

The Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader deck plan

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

• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 14× 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

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