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Kylox, Visionary Inventor

Legendary Creature — Lizard Artificer · {5}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

Menace, ward {2}, haste Whenever Kylox attacks, sacrifice any number of other creatures, then exile the top X cards of your library, where X is their total power. You may cast any number of instant and/or sorcery spells from among the exiled cards without paying their mana costs.

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What Kylox, Visionary Inventor 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 · attackWhenever Kylox attacks, sacrifice any number of other creatures, then exile the top X cards of your library, where X is their total power. You may cast any number of instant and/or sorcery spells from
• Keyword · menacemenace
• Keyword · wardward
• Keyword · hastehaste

What a Kylox, Visionary Inventor deck needs

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

• expensive spells only — cascade and free casts take the next cheaper card, so a cheap card is a defect
• evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine; it has haste)

The Kylox, Visionary Inventor deck plan

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

• 32× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 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
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Kylox, Visionary Inventor

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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