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Danitha, Benalia's Hope

Danitha, Benalia's Hope

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {4}{W} · White commander

First strike, vigilance, lifelink When Danitha enters, you may put an Aura or Equipment card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield attached to Danitha.
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What Danitha, Benalia's Hope actually does

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What a Danitha, Benalia's Hope deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Danitha, Benalia's Hope

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Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  3. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  4. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  5. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  6. Felidar Guardian4 mana
  7. Restoration Angel4 mana
  8. Teleportation Circle4 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Lion Sash2 mana
  2. Crystal Fragments // Summon: Alexander1 mana
  3. Crystal Fragments // Summon: Alexander1 mana
  4. Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms4 mana
  5. Twinblade Geist // Twinblade Invocation2 mana
  6. Cloudsteel Kirin3 mana
  7. Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr // Katilda's Rising Dawn3 mana
  8. Razorfield Ripper3 mana

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Paradise Mantle0 mana
  8. Trailblazer's Boots2 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  3. Lotus Field0 mana
  4. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  5. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  6. Soul Warden1 mana
  7. Soul's Attendant1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

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

  1. Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
  2. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  5. Shadowspear1 mana
  6. Jackdaw Savior3 mana
  7. Toby, Beastie Befriender3 mana
  8. Akroma's Memorial7 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Erode1 mana
  7. Getaway Glamer1 mana
  8. Unwanted Remake1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Harsh Mercy3 mana
  8. Retribution of the Meek3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Steelshaper's Gift1 mana
  2. Open the Armory2 mana
  3. Cloud, Midgar Mercenary2 mana
  4. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  5. Stoneforge Mystic2 mana
  6. Templar Knight2 mana
  7. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  8. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  4. Sram, Senior Edificer2 mana
  5. Smothering Tithe4 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

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