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Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · {3}{B} · Black commander

More Than Meets the Eye {2}{B} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{B}.) Flying Whenever you draw a card, if you're the monarch, target opponent loses 2 life. Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, convert Starscream. Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.) Flying, menace, haste Whenever Starscream deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, that player becomes the monarch. Whenever you become the monarch, convert Starscream.

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What Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker 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 · drawWhenever you draw a card, if you're the monarch, target opponent loses 2 life.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, convert Starscream.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Starscream deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, that player becomes the monarch.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever you become the monarch, convert Starscream.
• Keyword · more than meets the eyemore than meets the eye
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · living metalliving metal
• Keyword · menacemenace
• Keyword · hastehaste

What a Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader deck needs

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

• ways to take and keep the monarch (each draw then drains 2)
• evasion and protection for the commander

The Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader deck plan

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

• 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 12× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 6× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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 Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader

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