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Jocasta, Automaton Avenger
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Hero
Flying Whenever your commander deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Jocasta. Whenever you attack with your commander, if this card is in your graveyard, you may return it to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
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“Colorless recursion flyer that grows bigger each attack and bounces back from the graveyard.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Commander damage, Combat damage
Voltron, Artifacts, Recursion
Strategy
Jocasta is a recursion engine wrapped in a flying robot body. The core gameplan is elegantly simple: attack your opponents to grow Jocasta with +1/+1 counters, and whenever she dies or gets milled, she bounces back into play tapped and attacking on your next combat phase. This creates a self-replenishing threat that grows every turn she connects and becomes harder to permanently remove. You're not trying to one-shot anyone—instead, you're chipping away with a creature that always comes back bigger.
The deck wants to maximize how often Jocasta can be your attacker and how efficiently she enters the graveyard. Equipment like Mjölnir and Vibranium Strike Gauntlets turn her small frame into a serious damage dealer, while cards that recur artifacts or discard payoffs keep her coming back. Think of it as a grindy, recursive damage plan: survive the early game, get Jocasta online, and watch opponents whittle down as she returns again and again, ever-stronger.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey mana rocks like Mana Crypt; use Arc Reactor, The Ten Rings, or basic colorless utility lands like Wastes and Blinkmoth Nexus instead. Panther Habit and Unstable Molecule Suit are cheaper protection than premium Voltron suites.
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