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Anafenza, the Foremost

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {W}{B}{G} · Black/Green/White commander

Whenever Anafenza attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on another target tapped creature you control. If a nontoken creature an opponent owns would die or a creature card not on the battlefield would be put into an opponent's graveyard, exile that card instead.

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What Anafenza, the Foremost 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 · attackWhenever Anafenza attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on another target tapped creature you control.
• Replacement effect · otherIf a nontoken creature an opponent owns would die or a creature card not on the battlefield would be put into an opponent's graveyard, exile that card instead.

What an Anafenza, the Foremost deck needs

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

• creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Anafenza, the Foremost deck plan

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

• 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 17× 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
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Anafenza, the Foremost

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 Anafenza, the Foremost

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Anafenza, the Foremost is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Anafenza, the Foremost + Void Attendant + Pitiless Plunderer7 decks

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