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Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {2}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Decimate — When Legate Lanius enters, each opponent sacrifices a tenth of the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up. Whenever an opponent sacrifices a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Legate Lanius.

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What Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace 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 Legate Lanius enters, each opponent sacrifices a tenth of the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.
• Triggered ability · sacrificeWhenever an opponent sacrifices a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Legate Lanius.
• Keyword · decimatedecimate

What a Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace deck needs

Plays as edicts. 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)
• edicts — effects that make each opponent sacrifice (every sacrifice they make pays it off)

The Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace deck plan

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

• 9× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 11× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 9× 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 Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace

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.

Combos with Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace + Animation Module + Dictate Of Erebos + Ashnod's Altar12 decks
• Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace + Animation Module + Dictate Of Erebos + Phyrexian Altar7 decks
• Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace + Animation Module + Dictate Of Erebos + Thermopod2 decks
• Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace + Animation Module + Dictate Of Erebos + Krark-Clan Ironworks

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