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Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier · {2}{W} · White commander
Flash
First strike
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, Anafenza endures 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on it or create a 2/2 white Spirit creature token.)
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What Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage 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 · deathWhenever another nontoken creature you control dies, Anafenza endures 2.
- Keyword · flashflash
- Keyword · first strikefirst strike
What an Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
The Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 10× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
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.
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison4 mana
- Dunes of the Dead0 mana
- Belonging6 mana
- Platoon Dispenser5 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
- Phyrexian Altar3 mana
- Fanatical Devotion3 mana
- Martyr's Cause3 mana
- Bound by Moonsilver3 mana
- High Market0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
- You Cannot Pass!1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
- Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
- Search for Glory3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Mentor of the Meek3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer297 decks
- Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar276 decks
- Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar255 decks
- Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Pitiless Plunderer + Carrion Feeder167 decks
- Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Pitiless Plunderer + Umbral Collar Zealot162 decks
- Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Pitiless Plunderer + Bartolomé Del Presidio105 decks