Art by Alexander Gering
Commander deckU
La Forge, Thoughtful as Ever
Spread counters across your battlefield with proliferate and counter-placing engines, allowing La Forge to generate swarms of flying Faeries that are pumped or leveraged to untap him repeatedly.
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Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 62 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1La Forge, Thoughtful as Ever
3ULegendary Creature — Human Artificer
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Thought Vessel
2Artifact
Provides mana and removes maximum hand size restrictions.
Everflowing Chalice
0Artifact
Enters with charge counters and scales with proliferation.
Astral Cornucopia
XXXArtifact
Accumulates charge counters to tap for huge amounts of mana.
Replicating Ring
3Snow Artifact
Accumulates night counters each upkeep before erupting into more mana.
Midnight Clock
2UArtifact
Gains hour counters regularly and refills your hand once full.
Liquimetal Torque
2Artifact
Smooth two-mana ramp with utility to turn permanents into artifacts.
Card Draw
10
Mystic Remora
UEnchantment
Accumulates cumulative upkeep counters while drawing heaps of cards.
Tezzeret's Gambit
3UPSorcery
Draws two cards and proliferates counters across all permanents.
Bident of Thassa
2UULegendary Enchantment Artifact
Draws cards whenever your Faerie tokens hit opponents.
Coastal Piracy
2UUEnchantment
Turns flying token combat damage into massive card advantage.
Reconnaissance Mission
2UUEnchantment
Draws cards whenever creatures deal combat damage to players.
Kindred Discovery
3UUEnchantment
Triggers on Faeries entering the battlefield and attacking.
Danny Pink
3ULegendary Creature — Human Soldier Advisor
Draws cards whenever counters are placed on your creatures.
Experimental Augury
1UInstant
Digs through the library and proliferates across permanents.
Removal
10
Reality Shift
1UInstant
Exiles a creature cleanly, preventing graveyard recursion.
Fierce Guardianship
2UInstant
Free interaction to protect La Forge from removal.
Threats/Wincons
24
Chasm Skulker
2UCreature — Squid Horror
Gains +1/+1 counters on draw and splits into tokens on death.
Hangarback Walker
XXArtifact Creature — Construct
Enters with +1/+1 counters, self-taps to add more, and dies into flyers.
Walking Ballista
XXArtifact Creature — Construct
Flexible counter-based threat that doubles as spot removal or a win condition.
Steel Overseer
2Artifact Creature — Construct
Taps to put +1/+1 counters on every artifact creature you control.
The Ozolith
1Legendary Artifact
Preserves and redistributes counters across your board.
Thrummingbird
1UCreature — Phyrexian Bird Horror
Evasive flyer that proliferates on combat damage to trigger La Forge.
Flux Channeler
2UCreature — Human Wizard
Proliferates every time you cast a noncreature spell.
Inexorable Tide
3UUEnchantment
Proliferates all your permanents whenever any spell is cast.
Viral Drake
3UCreature — Phyrexian Drake
Provides a repeatable, mana-sink proliferate engine.
Guildpact Informant
2UCreature — Faerie Rogue
Proliferates on combat damage to keep counter counts high.
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
2UULegendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror
Doubles all proliferate triggers and protects itself with counters.
Contagion Clasp
2Artifact
Weakens an opposing threat and proliferates on command.
Contagion Engine
6Artifact
Decimates opposing boards and proliferates twice per activation.
Throne of Geth
2Artifact
Sacrifices surplus artifact tokens to proliferate at instant speed.
Toothy, Imaginary Friend
3ULegendary Creature — Illusion
Gains +1/+1 counters every time you draw a card.
Kappa Cannoneer
5UArtifact Creature — Turtle Warrior
Gains +1/+1 counters and becomes unblockable as artifacts enter.
Nadir Kraken
1UUCreature — Kraken
Places +1/+1 counters on itself and creates Tentacle tokens on draw.
Oneirophage
3UCreature — Squid Illusion
Grows with +1/+1 counters every turn via card draw.
Herald of Secret Streams
3UCreature — Merfolk Warrior
Makes all creatures with +1/+1 counters unblockable.
Energy Chamber
2Artifact
Guarantees a counter on an artifact or creature at every upkeep.
Power Conduit
2Artifact
Transfers and converts counters between permanents each turn.
Coretapper
2Artifact Creature — Myr
Directly adds charge counters onto artifacts for free.
Cyberdrive Awakener
5UArtifact Creature — Construct
Turns noncreature artifacts and tokens into a lethal flying armada.
Utility
8
Thousand-Year Elixir
3Artifact
Grants pseudo-haste to La Forge and untaps him for extra activations.
Patriar's Seal
3Artifact
Acts as mana ramp while offering an activation to untap your commander.
Swiftfoot Boots
2Artifact — Equipment
Grants hexproof and haste so La Forge can tap immediately.
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
Zero-cost equip providing haste and shroud for commander activations.
Dramatic Reversal
1UInstant
Untaps all nonland permanents to reuse La Forge and mana rocks.
Clock of Omens
4Artifact
Taps artifact tokens to untap La Forge or mana rocks repeatedly.
Sting, the Glinting Dagger
2Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Untaps La Forge on every player's upkeep for repeated token generation.
Pemmin's Aura
1UUEnchantment — Aura
Allows La Forge to untap for a single blue mana as often as needed.
