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Vial Smasher the Fierce

Legendary Creature — Goblin Berserker · {1}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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What Vial Smasher the Fierce 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls.
• Keyword · partnerpartner

What a Vial Smasher the Fierce deck needs

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

• high mana value spells cast first each turn (damage equals its mana value)
• a partner commander

The Vial Smasher the Fierce deck plan

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

• 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 10× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain

Best cards for Vial Smasher the Fierce

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.

Combos with Vial Smasher the Fierce

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Vial Smasher the Fierce is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Vial Smasher the Fierce + Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Ashnod The Uncaring + Street Urchin3 decks

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