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Thancred Waters

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {4}{W} · White commander

Flash Royal Guard — When Thancred Waters enters, another target legendary permanent you control gains indestructible for as long as you control Thancred Waters. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Thancred Waters gains indestructible until end of turn.

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What Thancred Waters 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 Thancred Waters enters, another target legendary permanent you control gains indestructible for as long as you control Thancred Waters.
• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a noncreature spell, Thancred Waters gains indestructible until end of turn.
• Keyword · flashflash

What a Thancred Waters deck needs

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

• noncreature spells (each one makes it indestructible)
• legendary permanents worth protecting (its enter makes one indestructible)

The Thancred Waters deck plan

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

• 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 23× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 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 Thancred Waters

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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