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Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale

Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {3}{R}{W}{B} · Black/Red/White commander

Vigilance, menace Whenever an equipped creature you control attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Equipment you control have equip Knight {0}.
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What Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale actually does

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What a Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale deck needs

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

The Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale deck plan

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

Best cards for Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale

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.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Akroma's Will4 mana
  2. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  3. Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
  4. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  5. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  6. The Wind Crystal4 mana
  7. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  8. Inquisitorial Rosette2 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

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

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

  1. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  2. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  5. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. On Wings of Gold4 mana
  8. Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge4 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

Combos with Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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