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Jocasta, Automaton Avenger

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Hero · {3} · Colorless commander

Flying Whenever your commander deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Jocasta. Whenever you attack with your commander, if this card is in your graveyard, you may return it to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

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What Jocasta, Automaton Avenger 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 · deals_damageWhenever your commander deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Jocasta.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever you attack with your commander, if this card is in your graveyard, you may return it to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Jocasta, Automaton Avenger deck needs

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

• evasion and damage amplifiers for the commander (its combat damage is the whole table's problem)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• evasion and protection for the commander (the trigger needs its combat damage to connect)

The Jocasta, Automaton Avenger deck plan

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

• 11× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 11× 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 Jocasta, Automaton Avenger

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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