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Quintorius, History Chaser

Legendary Planeswalker — Quintorius · {2}{R}{W} · Red/White commander

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token. +1: You may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards, then mill a card. −4: Spirits you control gain double strike and vigilance until end of turn. Quintorius, History Chaser can be your commander.

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What Quintorius, History Chaser 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.
• Activated ability+1: You may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards, then mill a card.
• Activated ability−4: Spirits you control gain double strike and vigilance until end of turn.

What a Quintorius, History Chaser deck needs

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

• ways to keep the commander planeswalker alive (blockers, fogs, pillowfort), loyalty growth (proliferate, loyalty boosters) and planeswalker synergies — it must survive a turn cycle to work
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• cards leaving your graveyard — flashback, escape, delve and reanimation (each one triggers it)
• creatures that profit from double strike/vigilance (it grants the team them)
• spirit creatures (its text counts them)

The Quintorius, History Chaser 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
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 6× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
• 6× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
• 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 Quintorius, History Chaser

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 Quintorius, History Chaser

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Quintorius, History Chaser is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Quintorius, History Chaser + Phyrexian Altar + Reassembling Skeleton14 decks
• Quintorius, History Chaser + Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar9 decks
• Quintorius, History Chaser + Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar9 decks
• Quintorius, History Chaser + Phyrexian Altar + Bloodsoaked Champion5 decks
• Quintorius, History Chaser + Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar5 decks
• Quintorius, History Chaser + Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Goblin Bombardment4 decks

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