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Vazi, Keen Negotiator

Vazi, Keen Negotiator

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · {2}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander

Haste {T}: Target opponent creates X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of Treasure tokens you created this turn. Whenever an opponent casts a spell or activates an ability, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it or activate it, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, then draw a card.
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What Vazi, Keen Negotiator actually does

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What a Vazi, Keen Negotiator deck needs

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

The Vazi, Keen Negotiator deck plan

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

Best cards for Vazi, Keen Negotiator

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.

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

  1. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  2. Bear Umbra4 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Genji Glove5 mana
  6. Akki Battle Squad6 mana
  7. Copperhorn Scout1 mana
  8. Éomer, Marshal of Rohan4 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
  2. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  3. Chalice of the Void0 mana
  4. Not of This World7 mana
  5. Goblin Artisans1 mana
  6. Avoid Fate1 mana
  7. Guttural Response1 mana
  8. Pyroblast1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Winding Constrictor2 mana
  5. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  6. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  7. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  8. The Earth Crystal4 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  6. Terminate2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Beast Within3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Grim Tutor3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  3. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  4. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Asceticism5 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  3. Golgari Signet2 mana
  4. Gruul Signet2 mana
  5. Incubation Druid2 mana
  6. Palladium Myr3 mana
  7. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  8. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana

Combos with Vazi, Keen Negotiator

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Vazi, Keen Negotiator is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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