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Danitha, Sword of Hope

Danitha, Sword of Hope

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{W} · White commander

First strike Whenever you cast an Equipment spell or a spell that targets a creature you control, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
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What Danitha, Sword 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.

What a Danitha, Sword of Hope deck needs

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

The Danitha, Sword of Hope deck plan

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

Best cards for Danitha, Sword 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.

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Paradise Mantle0 mana
  4. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 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. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

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

  1. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  2. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  3. Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. On Wings of Gold4 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Bilbo's Ring3 mana
  8. Cliffhaven Kitesail1 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. Generous Gift3 mana
  5. Erode1 mana
  6. Unwanted Remake1 mana
  7. Angelic Ascension2 mana
  8. You Cannot Pass!1 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

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Day of Judgment4 mana
  4. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  5. Split Up3 mana
  6. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  7. Depopulate4 mana
  8. No Witnesses4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  4. Sram, Senior Edificer2 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  8. Enduring Innocence3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  6. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  7. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  8. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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