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Evelyn, the Covetous

Legendary Creature — Vampire Rogue · {2}{U/B}{B}{B/R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

Flash Whenever Evelyn or another Vampire you control enters, exile the top card of each player's library with a collection counter on it. Once each turn, you may play a card from exile with a collection counter on it if it was exiled by an ability you controlled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

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What Evelyn, the Covetous 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 · etbWhenever Evelyn or another Vampire you control enters, exile the top card of each player's library with a collection counter on it.
• Static ability · restrictionOnce each turn, you may play a card from exile with a collection counter on it if it was exiled by an ability you controlled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
• Keyword · flashflash

What an Evelyn, the Covetous deck needs

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

• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• cheap spells and lands to play off its impulse draw (exiled cards must be played that turn)
• vampire creatures (its text counts them)

The Evelyn, the Covetous deck plan

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

• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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 Evelyn, the Covetous

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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