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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 wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

• 8× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 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
• 8× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs

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.

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