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Doctor Doom, King of Latveria

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain · {1}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

Whenever you discard one or more land cards, each opponent loses 2 life. At the beginning of combat on your turn, target Villain you control gains menace until end of turn. It connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

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What Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 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 · discardWhenever you discard one or more land cards, each opponent loses 2 life.
• Triggered ability · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, target Villain you control gains menace until end of turn. It connives.

What a Doctor Doom, King of Latveria deck needs

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

• drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
• looting and discard outlets (it rewards your own discards)
• villain creatures (its text counts them)

The Doctor Doom, King of Latveria deck plan

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

• 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 10× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Doctor Doom, King of Latveria

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.

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