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Caradora, Heart of Alacria
Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{G}{W} · Green/White commander
When Caradora enters, you may search your library for a Mount or Vehicle card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature or Vehicle you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
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What Caradora, Heart of Alacria 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 · etbWhen Caradora enters, you may search your library for a Mount or Vehicle card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- Replacement effect · counter_doublerIf one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature or Vehicle you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
What a Caradora, Heart of Alacria deck needs
Plays as counters engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- vehicles (its text counts them)
- counter producers and proliferate (every counter placed is multiplied)
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- mount creatures (its text counts them)
The Caradora, Heart of Alacria deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 8× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 14× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- 10× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 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
Best cards for Caradora, Heart of Alacria
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
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Conclave Mentor2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Evolution Sage3 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Bloated Contaminator3 mana
- Patrolling Peacemaker3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Emiel the Blessed4 mana
A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- Clown Car0 mana
- Smuggler's Copter2 mana
- Consulate Dreadnought1 mana
- Voyager Glidecar1 mana
- Cultivator's Caravan3 mana
- Mechtitan Core2 mana
- Reckoner Bankbuster2 mana
- TARDIS2 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- District Mascot1 mana
- Bulwark Ox2 mana
- Brightfield Glider1 mana
- Gloryheath Lynx2 mana
- Lagorin, Soul of Alacria2 mana
- Seraphic Steed2 mana
- Fortune, Loyal Steed3 mana
- Ornery Tumblewagg3 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 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
- Beast Within3 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- From Father to Son2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 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
Combos with Caradora, Heart of Alacria
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Caradora, Heart of Alacria is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Caradora, Heart of Alacria + Gatta And Luzzu + Walking Ballista99 decks
- Caradora, Heart of Alacria + Vigor + Walking Ballista50 decks
- Caradora, Heart of Alacria + Strength Of Will + Walking Ballista31 decks
- Caradora, Heart of Alacria + Gatta And Luzzu + Triskelion15 decks
- Caradora, Heart of Alacria + Rite Of Passage + Walking Ballista12 decks
- Caradora, Heart of Alacria + Vigor + Triskelion11 decks
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