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Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus

Legendary Artifact Creature — Gnome // Legendary Artifact Creature — Gnome · {U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

Whenever Tetzin or another double-faced artifact you control enters, mill three cards. You may put an artifact card from among them into your hand. Craft with six artifacts {4} ({4}, Exile this artifact, Exile the six from among other permanents you control and/or cards from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.) Vigilance, trample Whenever The Golden-Gear Colossus enters or attacks, transform up to one other target double-faced artifact you control. Create two 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens.

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What Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus 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 · etbWhenever Tetzin or another double-faced artifact you control enters, mill three cards. You may put an artifact card from among them into your hand.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever The Golden-Gear Colossus enters or attacks, transform up to one other target double-faced artifact you control. Create two 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens.
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance
• Keyword · trampletrample
• AbilityCraft with six artifacts {4}

What a Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus deck needs

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

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

Best cards for Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus

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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