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Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact · {1}{W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander

More Than Meets the Eye {2}{W}{U}{B} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{W}{U}{B}.) Whenever one or more creature tokens you control deal combat damage to a player, exile target instant or sorcery card with mana value equal to the damage dealt from their graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, convert Soundwave. Whenever you cast a spell with an odd mana value, convert Soundwave. If you do, create Ravage, a legendary 3/3 black Robot artifact creature token with menace and deathtouch. Whenever you cast a spell with an even mana value, convert Soundwave. If you do, create Laserbeak, a legendary 2/2 blue Robot artifact creature token with flying and hexproof.

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What Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain 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 · deals_damageWhenever one or more creature tokens you control deal combat damage to a player, exile target instant or sorcery card with mana value equal to the damage dealt from their graveyard. Copy it. You may c
• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a spell with an odd mana value, convert Soundwave. If you do, create Ravage, a legendary 3/3 black Robot artifact creature token with menace and deathtouch.
• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a spell with an even mana value, convert Soundwave. If you do, create Laserbeak, a legendary 2/2 blue Robot artifact creature token with flying and hexproof.
• Keyword · more than meets the eyemore than meets the eye

What a Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain deck needs

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

• spells at or below its mana-value cap (it casts them free; under the cap the cheap ones hit too)
• high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• many cheap evasive attackers and team evasion (every creature that connects triggers it)

The Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain deck plan

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

• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 10× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 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

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