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Jiang Yanggu, Alone

Legendary Creature — Human Berserker · {4}{R} · Red commander

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever a creature you control attacks a player alone, discard a card, then draw a card. Then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each card you've discarded this turn.

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What Jiang Yanggu, Alone 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 · attackWhenever a creature you control attacks a player alone, discard a card, then draw a card. Then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each card you've discarded this turn.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Jiang Yanggu, Alone deck needs

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

• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• one big attacker each turn — exalted, pump, equipment and evasion (it rewards attacking alone)

The Jiang Yanggu, Alone deck plan

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

• 19× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 22× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Jiang Yanggu, Alone

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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