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Alandra, Sky Dreamer

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard · {2}{U}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying. Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

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What Alandra, Sky Dreamer 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 · otherWhenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

What an Alandra, Sky Dreamer deck needs

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

• card draw — the second draw each turn makes a flying Drake, the fifth pumps Alandra and every Drake by your hand size
• no-maximum-hand-size effects and draw-heavy instants

The Alandra, Sky Dreamer deck plan

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

• 6× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 22× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Alandra, Sky Dreamer

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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