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Alania, Divergent Storm

Legendary Creature — Otter Wizard · {3}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell other than Alania you've cast this turn, you may have target opponent draw a card. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

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What Alania, Divergent Storm 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a spell, if it's the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell other than Alania you've cast this turn, you may have target opponent draw a card. If you

What an Alania, Divergent Storm deck needs

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

• instants, sorceries and artifact spells worth copying (it copies your spells)
• cheap spells of any kind (its trigger fires on every cast)
• otter creatures (its text counts them)

The Alania, Divergent Storm deck plan

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

• 16× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 14× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 6× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 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
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Alania, Divergent Storm

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.

Combos with Alania, Divergent Storm

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Alania, Divergent Storm is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Alania, Divergent Storm + Return The Favor6,598 decks
• Alania, Divergent Storm + Expansion3,964 decks
• Alania, Divergent Storm + Reverberate3,503 decks
• Alania, Divergent Storm + Increasing Vengeance2,644 decks
• Alania, Divergent Storm + Flare Of Duplication2,553 decks
• Alania, Divergent Storm + Reiterate1,930 decks

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