Arcane Foundry › Commanders › Velomachus Lorehold

Velomachus Lorehold

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon · {5}{R}{W} · Red/White commander

Flying, vigilance, haste Whenever Velomachus Lorehold attacks, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to Velomachus Lorehold's power from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Build a Velomachus Lorehold deck →

What Velomachus Lorehold 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 · attackWhenever Velomachus Lorehold attacks, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to Velomachus Lorehold's power from amo
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance
• Keyword · hastehaste

What a Velomachus Lorehold deck wants

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

• 32× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 12× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 6× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 10× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs

Best cards for Velomachus Lorehold

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.

Build this deck in the Arcane Forge →

Arcane Foundry is free to join and every tool is included: the Arcane Forge deck builder, the ARCANE Analyzer that scores a deck by simulating games rather than counting staples, a card scanner, a collection vault, and live webcam Commander tables. Read the guide · Browse all commanders · Pricing