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Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · {1}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, surveil 2 if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, each opponent discards a card. If it's the third time, put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

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What Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal 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 · etbWhenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, surveil 2 if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, each opponent discard

What a Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal deck needs

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

• enchantments (its text counts them)
• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• cards that make opponents discard (its payoff is their discards)

The Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal deck plan

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

• 10× Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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

Best cards for Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal

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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