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Preston Garvey, Minuteman

Preston Garvey, Minuteman

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {2}{R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a green Aura enchantment token named Settlement attached to up to one target land you control. It has enchant land and "Enchanted land has '{T}: Add one mana of any color.'" Whenever Preston Garvey attacks, untap each enchanted permanent you control.
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What Preston Garvey, Minuteman actually does

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

What a Preston Garvey, Minuteman deck needs

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

The Preston Garvey, Minuteman deck plan

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

Best cards for Preston Garvey, Minuteman

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  7. Fervor3 mana
  8. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  6. Delighted Halfling1 mana
  7. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  8. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  3. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. Gruul War Chant4 mana
  8. On Wings of Gold4 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Eladamri's Call2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  6. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  7. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  8. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana

Combos with Preston Garvey, Minuteman

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Preston Garvey, Minuteman is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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