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Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · {4}{R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander

More Than Meets the Eye {2}{R}{G}{W} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{R}{G}{W}.) Ward {2} Whenever Ultra Magnus attacks, you may put an artifact creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. If you do, convert Ultra Magnus at end of combat. Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.) Haste Formidable — Whenever Ultra Magnus attacks, attacking creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. If those creatures have total power 8 or greater, convert Ultra Magnus.

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What Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier 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 · attackWhenever Ultra Magnus attacks, you may put an artifact creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. If you do, convert Ultra Magnus at end of combat.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Ultra Magnus attacks, attacking creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. If those creatures have total power 8 or greater, convert Ultra Magnus.
• Keyword · more than meets the eyemore than meets the eye
• Keyword · wardward
• Keyword · living metalliving metal
• Keyword · hastehaste

What an Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier deck needs

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

• creatures that profit from indestructible (it grants the team it)
• expensive permanents worth cheating into play
• evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine; it has haste)

The Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier deck plan

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

• 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 14× Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 4× 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 Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier

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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