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Geth, Lord of the Vault
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie · {4}{B}{B} · Black commander
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
{X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control. Then that player mills X cards.
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What Geth, Lord of the Vault actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control. Then that player mills X cards.
- Keyword · intimidateintimidate
What a Geth, Lord of the Vault deck needs
Plays as mill theft. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- opponent mill to fill their graveyards (it steals from them for X)
- mana for a big X
The Geth, Lord of the Vault deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 4× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 8× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 6× Get ahead on mana
- 10× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
Best cards for Geth, Lord of the Vault
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.
Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Altar of the Brood1 mana
- Eye Collector1 mana
- Whetstone3 mana
- Worry Beads3 mana
- Mindwrack Harpy4 mana
- Tenured Oilcaster4 mana
- Infernal Genesis6 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Grafted Butcher2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
- Skyshaper2 mana
- Lord Skitter's Butcher3 mana
- Ninja Teen3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Deadly Rollick4 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Heartless Act2 mana
- Slaughter Pact0 mana
- Ghastly Demise1 mana
- Shoot the Sheriff2 mana
- Anoint with Affliction2 mana
- Death in the Family2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Spoils of the Vault1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Rhystic Tutor3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Spreading Plague5 mana
- Villainous Wrath5 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Nightmare Unmaking5 mana
- Extinction5 mana
Refill your hand
- Nazar, the Velvet Fang4 mana
- Infiltration Lens1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Mask of Memory2 mana
- Aetherflux Conduit6 mana
- The Mana Rig3 mana
- Brainstealer Dragon7 mana
- Sword of Forge and Frontier3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Eldritch Immunity1 mana
- Armor of Shadows1 mana
- Professor's Warning1 mana
- Masterful Flourish1 mana
- Unnatural Endurance1 mana
- Boon of Erebos1 mana
- Manhole Cover2 mana
- Without Weakness2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- The Soul Stone2 mana
- Arcane Signet2 mana
- Mind Stone2 mana
- Prismatic Lens2 mana
- Grim Monolith2 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- Cryptic Trilobite0 mana
- Jeweled Amulet0 mana
- Paradise Mantle0 mana
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Tantalite0 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana