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What Teyo, Diamondblade Mage 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 · etbWhen Teyo enters, target permanent you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature. Put a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.
• Keyword · flashflash

What a Teyo, Diamondblade Mage deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)

The Teyo, Diamondblade Mage deck plan

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

• 10× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 19× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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 Teyo, Diamondblade Mage

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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