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Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast

Legendary Creature — Assassin // Legendary Creature — Werewolf Beast · {2}{B}{B} · Black commander

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters on Vincent Valentine equal to that creature's power. Whenever Vincent Valentine attacks, you may transform it. Trample, lifelink When Galian Beast dies, return it to the battlefield tapped (front face up).

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What Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 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 · deathWhenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters on Vincent Valentine equal to that creature's power.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Vincent Valentine attacks, you may transform it.
• Triggered ability · deathWhen Galian Beast dies, return it to the battlefield tapped .
• Keyword · trampletrample
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink

What a Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast deck needs

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

• removal, deathtouch and one-sided sweepers (its payoff is the opponents' creatures dying)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast deck plan

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

• 10× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 9× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast

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