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Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Legendary Creature — Human Spy Villain · {2}{B} · Black commander

Other Villains you control are Heroes in addition to their other types. {T}: Target Hero you control connives. Activate only as a sorcery. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
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What Valentina Allegra de Fontaine actually does

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What a Valentina Allegra de Fontaine deck wants

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

Best cards for Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

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. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

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

  1. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  2. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Genji Glove5 mana
  6. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  7. Tiller Engine2 mana
  8. Sword of the Paruns4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Red Room Recruit2 mana
  2. Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel2 mana
  3. Body Launderer4 mana
  4. Baron Helmut Zemo3 mana
  5. Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord3 mana
  6. Iron Monger, Sadistic Tycoon3 mana
  7. Mechanical Mobster3 mana
  8. Raffine's Silencer3 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer1 mana
  2. Common Crook2 mana
  3. Morlun, Devourer of Spiders2 mana
  4. Agent Venom3 mana
  5. Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade3 mana
  6. A.I.M. Synthoids2 mana
  7. Agents of HYDRA2 mana
  8. Black Widow, Super Spy2 mana

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

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  5. Innocent Blood1 mana
  6. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  7. Forced March3 mana
  8. Nature's Ruin3 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. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Kederekt Parasite1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

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