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Vincent, Vengeful Atoner

Legendary Creature — Assassin · {2}{R} · Red commander

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Vincent. Chaos — Whenever Vincent deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent if Vincent's power is 7 or greater.

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What Vincent, Vengeful Atoner 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 · deals_damageWhenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Vincent.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Vincent deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent if Vincent's power is 7 or greater.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Vincent, Vengeful Atoner deck needs

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

• evasion and damage amplifiers for the commander (its combat damage is the whole table's problem)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Vincent, Vengeful Atoner deck plan

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

• 20× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 6× 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, Vengeful Atoner

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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