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Syr Vondam, the Lucent

Syr Vondam, the Lucent

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{W}{B}{B} · Black/White commander

Deathtouch, lifelink Whenever Syr Vondam enters or attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain deathtouch until end of turn.
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What Syr Vondam, the Lucent actually does

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What a Syr Vondam, the Lucent deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Syr Vondam, the Lucent

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

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  3. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  4. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  5. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  6. Felidar Guardian4 mana
  7. Restoration Angel4 mana
  8. Teleportation Circle4 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  2. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  3. Elenda, the Dusk Rose4 mana
  4. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  5. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  6. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana
  7. Parhelion II // Parhelion II0 mana
  8. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Temple of Silence0 mana
  4. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  5. Lotus Field0 mana
  6. Mortuary Mire0 mana
  7. Orzhov Basilica0 mana
  8. Riveteers Overlook0 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  2. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  3. Elenda, the Dusk Rose4 mana
  4. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  5. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  6. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana
  7. Parhelion II // Parhelion II0 mana
  8. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  6. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  7. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  8. Fatal Push1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Amalia Benavides Aguirre2 mana
  4. Do or Die2 mana
  5. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  6. Pest Control2 mana
  7. Force of Despair3 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Archivist of Oghma2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Cryptothrall4 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  8. General's Enforcer2 mana

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