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Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer Hero // Legendary Artifact Creature — Human Hero · {1}{U} // {4}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

{1}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. {4}{U}{R}: Transform Tony Stark. Activate only as a sorcery. Flying, haste At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield. If it's an Equipment, attach it to The Invincible Iron Man.

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What Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{1}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• Activated ability{4}{U}{R}: Transform Tony Stark. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Triggered ability · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, you may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield. If it's an Equipment, attach it to The Invincible Iron Man.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · hastehaste

What a Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man deck needs

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

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
• expensive permanents worth cheating into play
• untap effects that reach the commander (it has haste; each untap repeats its tap ability)

The Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man deck plan

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

• 14× Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 5× 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man

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