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War Machine, Avenging Arsenal

Legendary Artifact Creature — Human Hero · {4}{R} · Red commander

Flying Whenever War Machine attacks, attacking modified creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

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What War Machine, Avenging Arsenal 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 War Machine attacks, attacking modified creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a War Machine, Avenging Arsenal deck needs

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

• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
• creatures that profit from double strike (it grants the team it)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The War Machine, Avenging Arsenal deck plan

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

• 8× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 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

Best cards for War Machine, Avenging Arsenal

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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