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Jocasta, Automaton Avenger

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

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What a Jocasta, Automaton Avenger deck wants

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Best cards for Jocasta, Automaton Avenger

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Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  3. Shadowspear1 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Chronicle of Victory6 mana
  6. Super State7 mana
  7. Loxodon Warhammer3 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Mindcrank2 mana
  3. Codex Shredder1 mana
  4. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  5. Trenchpost0 mana
  6. Mesmeric Orb2 mana
  7. Millikin2 mana
  8. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  3. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  4. Staff of Compleation3 mana
  5. Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
  6. Carnival Elephant Meteor0 mana
  7. Sword of Hours2 mana
  8. Throne of Geth2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  2. Titan's Presence3 mana
  3. Kozilek's Command2 mana
  4. Warping Wail2 mana
  5. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  6. Getaway Car3 mana
  7. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
  8. Voyager Staff1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  2. Coercive Portal4 mana
  3. Worldslayer5 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Apocalypse Chime2 mana
  6. All Is Dust7 mana
  7. Trailblazer's Torch4 mana
  8. False Floor4 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Myr Kinsmith4 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Shrine Steward5 mana
  7. Myr Turbine5 mana
  8. Self-Assembler5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. The One Ring4 mana
  3. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  4. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  5. Key to the City2 mana
  6. Mask of Memory2 mana
  7. Smuggler's Copter2 mana
  8. Tome of Legends2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

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