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Moseo, Vein's New Dean
Legendary Creature — Bird Skeleton Warlock · {2}{B} · Black commander
Flying
When Moseo enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
Infusion — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return up to one target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
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What Moseo, Vein's New Dean 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 Moseo enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
- Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return up to one target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life y
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · infusioninfusion
What a Moseo, Vein's New Dean deck needs
Plays as lifegain. 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)
- repeatable lifegain — lifelink, gain-life triggers and Food (every life gained is its trigger)
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
The Moseo, Vein's New Dean deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 16× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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
Best cards for Moseo, Vein's New Dean
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Diabolic Servitude4 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
- Ashnod's Intervention1 mana
Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Zuran Orb0 mana
- Blood Artist2 mana
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince0 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
- Plaguecrafter3 mana
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel5 mana
- Burglar Rat2 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
- Grave Titan6 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Spawnbed Protector7 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Caged Sun6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Heroes' Podium5 mana
- Endurance Bobblehead3 mana
- Skorpekh Lord3 mana
- The Immortal Sun6 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Combos with Moseo, Vein's New Dean
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Moseo, Vein's New Dean is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Moseo, Vein's New Dean + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar137 decks
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