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Zuko, Firebending Master

Zuko, Firebending Master

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally · {1}{R} · Red commander

First strike Firebending X, where X is the number of experience counters you have. (Whenever this creature attacks, add X {R}. This mana lasts until end of combat.) Whenever you cast a spell during combat, you get an experience counter.
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What Zuko, Firebending Master actually does

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What a Zuko, Firebending Master deck needs

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

The Zuko, Firebending Master deck plan

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

Best cards for Zuko, Firebending Master

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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

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Faithless Looting1 mana
  2. Gamble1 mana
  3. Lightning Bolt1 mana
  4. Vandalblast1 mana
  5. Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege0 mana
  6. Pyroblast1 mana
  7. Red Elemental Blast1 mana
  8. Redirect Lightning1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
  2. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  3. Chalice of the Void0 mana
  4. Not of This World7 mana
  5. Goblin Artisans1 mana
  6. Pyroblast1 mana
  7. Red Elemental Blast1 mana
  8. Chef's Kiss3 mana

Combos with Zuko, Firebending Master

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Zuko, Firebending Master is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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