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Raiyuu, Storm's Edge

Legendary Creature — Human Samurai · {2}{R}{W} · Red/White commander

First strike Whenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, untap it. If it's the first combat phase of the turn, there is an additional combat phase after this phase.

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What Raiyuu, Storm's Edge 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 · attackWhenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, untap it. If it's the first combat phase of the turn, there is an additional combat phase after this phase.
• Keyword · first strikefirst strike

What a Raiyuu, Storm's Edge deck needs

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

• Samurai and Warriors that attack alone (an extra combat each time)
• equipment and pump for the lone attacker

The Raiyuu, Storm's Edge deck plan

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

• 8× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 10× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 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 Raiyuu, Storm's Edge

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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