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White Widow, Free Agent
Legendary Creature — Human Hero Villain · {3}{W} · White commander
What White Widow, Free Agent 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 · etbWhen White Widow enters, choose one —
What a White Widow, Free Agent deck needs
Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
The White Widow, Free Agent deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 9× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 16× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 8× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 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 White Widow, Free Agent
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Felidar Guardian4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Helpful Hunter2 mana
- Loyal Warhound2 mana
- Wall of Omens2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
- Generous Pup2 mana
- Martyr for the Cause2 mana
- Cenn's Tactician1 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
- Sequestered Stash0 mana
- Excavated Wall1 mana
- Wand of Vertebrae1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
- You Cannot Pass!1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
- Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
- Search for Glory3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Mentor of the Meek3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
Combos with White Widow, Free Agent
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that White Widow, Free Agent is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- White Widow, Free Agent + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Viscera Seer4 decks
- White Widow, Free Agent + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Bartolomé Del Presidio3 decks
- White Widow, Free Agent + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Phyrexian Altar3 decks
- White Widow, Free Agent + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Ashnod's Altar2 decks
- White Widow, Free Agent + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Yahenni, Undying Partisan2 decks
- White Widow, Free Agent + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Umbral Collar Zealot2 decks
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