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Tidus, Blitzball Star

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {1}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Tidus. Whenever Tidus attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

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What Tidus, Blitzball Star 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 an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Tidus.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Tidus attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

What a Tidus, Blitzball Star 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)
• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Tidus, Blitzball Star 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
• 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

Best cards for Tidus, Blitzball Star

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.

Combos with Tidus, Blitzball Star

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Tidus, Blitzball Star is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Tidus, Blitzball Star + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar48 decks
• Tidus, Blitzball Star + Animation Module + Krark-Clan Ironworks23 decks
• Tidus, Blitzball Star + Animation Module + Phyrexian Altar2 decks
• Tidus, Blitzball Star + Animation Module + Thermopod

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