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Sin, Unending Cataclysm

Legendary Creature — Leviathan Avatar · {5}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander

Flying, trample As Sin enters, remove all counters from any number of artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Sin enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is twice the number of counters removed this way. When Sin dies, put its counters on target creature you control, then shuffle this card into its owner's library.

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What Sin, Unending Cataclysm 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 · deathWhen Sin dies, put its counters on target creature you control, then shuffle this card into its owner's library.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · trampletrample
• AbilityAs Sin enters, remove all counters from any number of artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Sin enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is twice the number of counters removed this way.

What a Sin, Unending Cataclysm deck needs

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

• sacrifice outlets and recursion for the commander (its own death is the payoff)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Sin, Unending Cataclysm deck plan

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

• 10× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 4× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 8× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Sin, Unending Cataclysm

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 Sin, Unending Cataclysm

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sin, Unending Cataclysm is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Sin, Unending Cataclysm + Body Of Research + Sage Of Hours27 decks
• Sin, Unending Cataclysm + Verdant Succession + Phyrexian Altar4 decks
• Sin, Unending Cataclysm + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Shilgengar, Sire Of Famine2 decks
• Sin, Unending Cataclysm + Verdant Succession + Ashnod's Altar1 decks
• Sin, Unending Cataclysm + Deathrender + Heirloom Blade + Ashnod's Altar1 decks
• Sin, Unending Cataclysm + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Viscera Seer1 decks

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