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Quintorius, Loremaster

Quintorius, Loremaster

Legendary Creature — Elephant Cleric · {3}{R}{W} · Red/White commander

Vigilance At the beginning of your end step, exile target noncreature, nonland card from your graveyard. Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token. {1}{R}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice a Spirit: Choose target card exiled with Quintorius. You may cast that card this turn without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.
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What Quintorius, Loremaster actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Quintorius, Loremaster deck needs

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

The Quintorius, Loremaster deck plan

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

Best cards for Quintorius, Loremaster

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  7. Fervor3 mana
  8. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana

Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain

  1. Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
  2. Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
  3. Blightsteel Colossus12 mana
  4. Charred Foyer // Warped Space10 mana
  5. Darksteel Colossus11 mana
  6. Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
  7. Emrakul, the World Anew12 mana
  8. Flayer of Loyalties10 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  2. Aurelia, the Warleader6 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Genji Glove5 mana
  6. Éomer, Marshal of Rohan4 mana
  7. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  8. Lightning Runner5 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  2. Millikin2 mana
  3. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  4. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  5. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  6. Sequestered Stash0 mana
  7. Excavated Wall1 mana
  8. Wand of Vertebrae1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Erode1 mana
  7. Unwanted Remake1 mana
  8. Angelic Ascension2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon3 mana
  4. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  5. Templar Knight2 mana
  6. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  7. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  8. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  5. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  7. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  8. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana

Combos with Quintorius, Loremaster

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

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