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Vrestin, Menoptra Leader

Legendary Creature — Alien Insect Scout · {X}{G}{G}{W} · Green/White commander

Flying Vrestin enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Vrestin enters, create X 1/1 green and white Alien Insect creature tokens with flying. Whenever you attack with one or more Insects, put a +1/+1 counter on each of them.

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What Vrestin, Menoptra Leader 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 · etbWhen Vrestin enters, create X 1/1 green and white Alien Insect creature tokens with flying.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever you attack with one or more Insects, put a +1/+1 counter on each of them.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Vrestin, Menoptra Leader deck needs

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

• ramp, and ways to return the commander to your hand and recast it bigger (its enter trigger is sized by X — a blink makes X zero)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• insect creatures (its text counts them)
• a wide board that attacks every turn (the trigger fires on the attack)

The Vrestin, Menoptra Leader deck plan

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

• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 14× 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

Best cards for Vrestin, Menoptra Leader

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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