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Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {2}{R} · Black/Red/White commander

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
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What Alesha, Who Smiles at Death actually does

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What an Alesha, Who Smiles at Death deck needs

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

The Alesha, Who Smiles at Death deck plan

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

Best cards for Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

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Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  7. Fervor3 mana
  8. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  2. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  5. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. On Wings of Gold4 mana
  8. Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge4 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  4. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  5. Tomb Fortress0 mana
  6. Millikin2 mana
  7. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  8. Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. Defile1 mana
  5. Tragic Slip1 mana
  6. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  7. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  8. Terminate2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Tainted Pact2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  7. Chain Reaction4 mana
  8. Day of Judgment4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  7. General's Enforcer2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros Signet2 mana
  3. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  4. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Chrome Mox0 mana
  8. Everflowing Chalice0 mana

Combos with Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Alesha, Who Smiles at Death is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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