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Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

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

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may move a counter from target creature you control onto a second target creature you control. Cheer — Whenever one or more creatures you control with counters on them deal combat damage to a player, you may draw a card and proliferate. Do this only once each turn.

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What Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 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 · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, you may move a counter from target creature you control onto a second target creature you control.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever one or more creatures you control with counters on them deal combat damage to a player, you may draw a card and proliferate. Do this only once each turn.
• Keyword · cheercheer

What a Tidus, Yuna's Guardian deck needs

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

• counter producers (it proliferates every turn)
• many cheap evasive attackers and team evasion (every creature that connects triggers it)

The Tidus, Yuna's Guardian deck plan

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

• 18× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 21× 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 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 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

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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