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Dáin Ironfoot

Dáin Ironfoot

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Warrior

Dáin Ironfoot wants a deck that piles armor and magic onto one creature and attacks with it. It also works in a deck built around Dwarves, Equipment / Hammer Time or Warriors.

  • Mana cost2 genericred
  • Red ()
  • Power / toughness1 / 4
  • RarityRare

When Dáin enters, create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Axe with "Equipped creature gets +1/+0" and equip 2 generic. When you do, attach it to target creature you control.

Whenever Dáin attacks, each equipped attacking creature gains double strike until end of turn.

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit Dáin Ironfoot

Picked for what they do in Dáin Ironfoot's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Dáin Ironfoot's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Commanders that share the most with Dáin Ironfoot, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryRPlayers write colors as letters: R for red.VoltronVoltron decks load one creature, usually the commander, with Equipment and Auras until it can win by attacking on its own. In Commander, a player dealt 21 or more combat damage by the same commander over the game loses, so one huge commander can knock a player out.Open the Voltron pageVoltron CommanderA legendary creature that can carry the whole game plan by itself. It protects itself, grows with what is attached to it, or rewards attacking alone. The deck piles Auras and Equipment onto it and wins with commander damage, since 21 or more combat damage from one commander knocks a player out. Named for the toy robot built from smaller pieces. Zurgo Helmsmasher, Uril, the Miststalker, Sigarda, Host of HeronsOpen the Voltron Commander pageVoltron SupportHelps you stack Auras and Equipment onto a single creature: cheaper attaching, protection, or extra ways to suit it up. Hammer of Nazahn, Sigarda's AidOpen the Voltron Support pageEquipment / Hammer TimeEquipment, plus cards that attach it for free. That lets even Equipment with a huge equip cost, like Colossus Hammer, go to work right away.Open the Equipment / Hammer Time pageCombat TrickAn instant you cast during a fight to change how it ends: making a creature bigger or smaller, or keeping your creatures from dying. Boros Charm, Flawless ManeuverOpen the Combat Trick pageToken MakerCreates one or more tokens. Different cards make very different ones: creatures Grave Titan, Treasures Smothering Tithe, Clues Tireless Tracker or Food Gilded Goose. This is one of our largest tags, so pair it with an archetype or theme when you are hunting a specific kind.Open the Token Maker pageETB ValueDoes something useful the moment it arrives: an enter the battlefield ability, which players shorten to ETB. You keep that effect even if the card is removed straight afterwards, which is why these pair so well with flicker cards that make them enter again. Solemn Simulacrum, The One RingOpen the ETB Value page