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Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · {5}{U}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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What Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant 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 · otherWhenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

What a Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant deck needs

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

• instants, sorceries and artifact spells worth copying (one free copy each turn)
• spells that act on the opponents' turns (his counter fires once each turn, on their casts)
• protection — he is the whole engine and a lightning rod

The Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant deck plan

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

• 18× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 6× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 8× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 6× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

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.

Combos with Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Mechanized Production + Myr Battlesphere1,054 decks
• Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Ghostly Flicker + Narset's Reversal + Nykthos, Shrine To Nyx176 decks
• Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Ghostly Flicker + Narset's Reversal + Gilded Lotus127 decks
• Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Ugin's Nexus + Master Transmuter80 decks
• Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Venser, Shaper Savant + Panharmonicon + Time Warp51 decks
• Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Ghostly Flicker + Narset's Reversal + Chromatic Orrery35 decks

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