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Lord Xander, the Collector
Legendary Creature — Vampire Demon Noble · {4}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander
When Lord Xander enters, target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded down.
Whenever Lord Xander attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded down.
When Lord Xander dies, target opponent sacrifices half the nonland permanents they control of their choice, rounded down.
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What Lord Xander, the Collector 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 Lord Xander enters, target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded down.
- Triggered ability · attackWhenever Lord Xander attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded down.
- Triggered ability · deathWhen Lord Xander dies, target opponent sacrifices half the nonland permanents they control of their choice, rounded down.
What a Lord Xander, the Collector deck needs
Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- opponent-mill spells and permanents, and mill payoffs (their library is the win)
- sacrifice outlets and recursion for the commander (its own death is the payoff)
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- cards that make opponents discard (its payoff is their discards)
- haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)
The Lord Xander, the Collector deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 18× Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
- 10× Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
- 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 5× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 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
Best cards for Lord Xander, the Collector
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.
Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
- Altar of the Brood1 mana
- Ruin Crab1 mana
- Folio of Fancies2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Psychic Corrosion3 mana
- The Water Crystal4 mana
- Eye Collector1 mana
Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
- Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
- Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
- Jace's Archivist3 mana
- Liliana of the Veil3 mana
- Rankle, Master of Pranks4 mana
- Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace0 mana
- Anvil of Bogardan2 mana
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Rising of the Day3 mana
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Frostcliff Siege3 mana
- The Fire Crystal4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
- Fervor3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Gossip's Talent2 mana
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Goblin Bombardment2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Dark Privilege2 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Baleful Strix2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Rogue Class2 mana
- Archetype of Imagination6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Don Andres, the Renegade4 mana
- Archetype of Aggression3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Combos with Lord Xander, the Collector
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lord Xander, the Collector is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Lord Xander, the Collector + Bruvac The Grandiloquent1,943 decks
- Lord Xander, the Collector + Fraying Sanity1,678 decks
- Lord Xander, the Collector + Riverchurn Monument544 decks
- Lord Xander, the Collector + Keening Stone422 decks
- Lord Xander, the Collector + Phenax, God Of Deception + Consuming Aberration406 decks
- Lord Xander, the Collector + Phenax, God Of Deception + Sewer Nemesis39 decks
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