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Squall, Gunblade Duelist

Squall, Gunblade Duelist

Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary · {R}{W}{B} · Black/Red/White commander

First strike As Squall enters, choose a number. Whenever one or more creatures attack one of your opponents, if any of those creatures have power or toughness equal to the chosen number, Squall deals damage equal to its power to defending player.
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What Squall, Gunblade Duelist actually does

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What a Squall, Gunblade Duelist deck needs

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

The Squall, Gunblade Duelist deck plan

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

Best cards for Squall, Gunblade Duelist

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.

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  3. Caesar, Legion's Emperor4 mana
  4. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  5. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  6. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  7. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  8. Cosmogrand Zenith3 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. Defile1 mana
  5. Tragic Slip1 mana
  6. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Terminate2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  7. Chain Reaction4 mana
  8. Day of Judgment4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Professional Face-Breaker3 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. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  7. General's Enforcer2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros Signet2 mana
  3. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  4. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Chrome Mox0 mana
  8. Everflowing Chalice0 mana

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