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Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · {4}{G}{G} · Green commander
Trample, haste
If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
If an opponent would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, they put half that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead, rounded down.
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What Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · counter_doublerIf you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
- Replacement effect · otherIf an opponent would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, they put half that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead, rounded down.
- Keyword · trampletrample
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider deck needs
Plays as counters engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- counter producers and proliferate (every counter placed is multiplied)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
The Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 13× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 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 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
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.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Evolution Sage3 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Bloated Contaminator3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
- Throne of Geth2 mana
- Surge Conductor3 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Duskshell Crawler2 mana
- Sphere Grid2 mana
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
Combos with Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider + Vraska, Betrayal's Sting30,108 decks
- Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider + Vigor + Walking Ballista3,093 decks
- Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider + Magistrate's Scepter + Contagion Engine1,394 decks
- Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider + Aminatou, The Fateshifter + Ichormoon Gauntlet + Ugin, The Spirit Dragon1,159 decks
- Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider + Gatta And Luzzu + Walking Ballista904 decks
- Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider + Jace, Cunning Castaway902 decks