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Justice, Vance Astrovik

Legendary Creature — Mutant Hero · {2}{U} · Blue commander

Flying When Justice enters, return up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent to its owner's hand. Whenever another nonland permanent you control is returned to its owner's hand, put a +1/+1 counter on Justice.

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What Justice, Vance Astrovik 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 · etbWhen Justice enters, return up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent to its owner's hand.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever another nonland permanent you control is returned to its owner's hand, put a +1/+1 counter on Justice.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Justice, Vance Astrovik deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Justice, Vance Astrovik deck plan

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

• 12× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 15× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 12× 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Justice, Vance Astrovik

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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