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Ultron the Annihilator

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Villain · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander

Flying Whenever Ultron enters or attacks, create a 2/2 colorless Robot Villain artifact creature token. Whenever another artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield or an artifact card is put into your graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

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What Ultron the Annihilator 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 Ultron enters or attacks, create a 2/2 colorless Robot Villain artifact creature token.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever another artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield or an artifact card is put into your graveyard from anywhere other, each opponent loses 1 life.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What an Ultron the Annihilator deck needs

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

• artifacts and Treasures to sacrifice (its payoff is artifacts going to the graveyard)
• artifacts (its text counts them)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Ultron the Annihilator deck plan

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

• 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× 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
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

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