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Arwen, Weaver of Hope
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble · {1}{G}{G} · Green commander
Each other creature you control enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to Arwen's toughness.
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What Arwen, Weaver of Hope actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- AbilityEach other creature you control enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to Arwen's toughness.
What an Arwen, Weaver of Hope deck needs
Plays as counters. 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 (every other creature enters with counters equal to Arwen's toughness)
- toughness boosts on Arwen — +0/+X effects and counters on her multiply every creature after
- a steady stream of creatures entering
The Arwen, Weaver of Hope deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 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
- 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Arwen, Weaver of Hope
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.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
- Cankerbloom2 mana
- Thirsting Roots1 mana
- Evolution Sage3 mana
- Mossborn Hydra3 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Fangs of Kalonia2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Shrink1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Joraga Treespeaker1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Elvish Archdruid3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
Combos with Arwen, Weaver of Hope
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Arwen, Weaver of Hope is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Ashnod's Altar2,388 decks
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Yahenni, Undying Partisan1,580 decks
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Carrion Feeder1,556 decks
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Phyrexian Altar1,244 decks
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Viscera Seer1,196 decks
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Altar Of Dementia1,055 decks