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Veronica, Dissident Scribe

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer Rogue · {2}{R} · Red commander

Menace Whenever Veronica attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. Whenever you discard one or more nonland cards for the first time each turn, create a Junk token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.")

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What Veronica, Dissident Scribe 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 Veronica attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
• Triggered ability · discardWhenever you discard one or more nonland cards for the first time each turn, create a Junk token.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Veronica, Dissident Scribe deck needs

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

• artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures, Clues or Food on repeat)
• looting and discard outlets (it rewards your own discards)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Veronica, Dissident Scribe deck plan

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

• 14× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
• 10× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 8× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Veronica, Dissident Scribe

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.

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