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Thorin, Mountain-king
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble · {3}{R} · Red commander
Trample
When Thorin enters, attach any number of target Equipment you control to target creature you control. When one or more Equipment become attached to that creature this way, that creature deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature.
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What Thorin, Mountain-king 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 Thorin enters, attach any number of target Equipment you control to target creature you control. When one or more Equipment become attached to that creature this way, that creature deals damage e
- Keyword · trampletrample
What a Thorin, Mountain-king deck needs
Plays as voltron. 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)
- auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
The Thorin, Mountain-king 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
- 16× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
- 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 7× 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
Best cards for Thorin, Mountain-king
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Sword of the Animist2 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Paradise Mantle0 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Dire Fleet Daredevil2 mana
- Fear of Missing Out2 mana
- Goblin Engineer2 mana
- Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak5 mana
- Voldaren Epicure1 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Archetype of Aggression3 mana
- Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Ajani's Anguish1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw2 mana
- Dwarven Recruiter3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Combos with Thorin, Mountain-king
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Thorin, Mountain-king is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Thorin, Mountain-king + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Raptor Hatchling1 decks
- Thorin, Mountain-king + Raphael, Ninja Destroyer + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar1 decks
- Thorin, Mountain-king + Raphael, Ninja Destroyer + Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar1 decks
- Thorin, Mountain-king + Raphael, Ninja Destroyer + Nim Deathmantle + Blasting Station1 decks
- Thorin, Mountain-king + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Overgrown Armasaur
- Thorin, Mountain-king + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Polyraptor
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