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Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · {2}{R} · Red commander

At the beginning of combat on your turn, for each Aura and Equipment attached to Valduk, create a 3/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.
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What Valduk, Keeper of the Flame actually does

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What a Valduk, Keeper of the Flame deck needs

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

The Valduk, Keeper of the Flame deck plan

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

Best cards for Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

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Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  3. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  4. Hanweir Garrison3 mana
  5. Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana
  6. Field of the Dead0 mana
  7. Fountainport0 mana
  8. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Castle Embereth0 mana
  2. Great Train Heist1 mana
  3. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  4. Rising of the Day3 mana
  5. Purphoros, God of the Forge4 mana
  6. Kavaron, Memorial World0 mana
  7. Chief of the Foundry3 mana
  8. Caged Sun6 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  3. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  4. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  5. Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
  6. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  7. Ajani's Anguish1 mana
  8. Shadowspear1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Gamble1 mana
  7. Hoarding Dragon5 mana
  8. Shrine Steward5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  8. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Combos with Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Valduk, Keeper of the Flame is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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