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Quintorius, Field Historian
Legendary Creature — Elephant Cleric · {3}{R}{W} · Red/White commander
What Quintorius, Field Historian 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 · otherWhenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
- Static ability · lordSpirits you control get +1/+0.
What a Quintorius, Field Historian deck needs
Plays as spirit typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- cards leaving your graveyard — flashback, escape, delve and reanimation (each one triggers it)
- spirit creatures (its text counts them)
The Quintorius, Field Historian deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- 8× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 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
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Quintorius, Field Historian
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.
A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Underworld Breach2 mana
- Faithless Looting1 mana
- Hidden Courtyard0 mana
- Hidden Volcano0 mana
- Lotus Bloom0 mana
- Mox Tantalite0 mana
- Ephemerate1 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
- Sequestered Stash0 mana
- Excavated Wall1 mana
- Wand of Vertebrae1 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Selfless Spirit2 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Ugin's Conjurant0 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Indebted Spirit1 mana
- Kami of False Hope1 mana
- Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom1 mana
- Simian Spirit Guide3 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Intangible Virtue2 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Inspiring Leader3 mana
- Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
- Gideon's Memorial2 mana
- Mite Overseer4 mana
- Phantom General4 mana
- Patchwork Banner3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon3 mana
- Goblin Engineer2 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
Combos with Quintorius, Field Historian
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Quintorius, Field Historian is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Quintorius, Field Historian + Squee, The Immortal + Birgi, God Of Storytelling + Phyrexian Altar12 decks
- Quintorius, Field Historian + Phyrexian Altar + Reassembling Skeleton11 decks
- Quintorius, Field Historian + Squee, The Immortal + Hazoret's Monument + Phyrexian Altar9 decks
- Quintorius, Field Historian + Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar8 decks
- Quintorius, Field Historian + Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar8 decks
- Quintorius, Field Historian + Squee, The Immortal + Hazoret's Monument + Thermopod7 decks
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