Alphonse Elric, Martial Artist

SteelAlchemist: Martial Artist is the best Elric Start for any deck. By doing that it makes any Elric leader not have to put a hand full of big allies back on the bottom of their deck at the beginning of the game. It makes for the best faint in the game. The nice part is that you can run 3 Alphonse Tireless Fighter and 3 Bodyguard and not have them sit in your hand and be useless until level 3. It makes it so you have a big Elric allies down earlier without having to spend the command on another Alphonse when you can spend it on ALA or another Alchemy ally that takes a whole turn. The only problem is your opponent will know to attack that first rather than letting you kill off their leader when your Elric deck doesn't have active player and it only has 1 wits so its not much help in the active player game with other decks.