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Dihada, Binder of Wills
Legendary Planeswalker — Dihada · {1}{R}{W}{B} · Black/Red/White commander
+2: Up to one target legendary creature gains vigilance, lifelink, and indestructible until your next turn.
−3: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put any number of legendary cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Create a Treasure token for each card put into your graveyard this way.
−11: Gain control of all nonland permanents until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
Dihada, Binder of Wills can be your commander.
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What Dihada, Binder of Wills actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability+2: Up to one target legendary creature gains vigilance, lifelink, and indestructible until your next turn.
- Activated ability−3: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put any number of legendary cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Create a Treasure token for each card put into your gr
- Activated ability−11: Gain control of all nonland permanents until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
What a Dihada, Binder of Wills deck needs
Plays as legends. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- legendary creatures and legendary cards (her −3 keeps them; her +2 protects one)
- protection and proliferate for the commander planeswalker
The Dihada, Binder of Wills deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 12× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Dihada, Binder of Wills
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.
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician4 mana
- Patrolling Peacemaker3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- Surgehacker Mech4 mana
- Devouring Hellion3 mana
- Urza Assembles the Titans5 mana
- Heart of Bogardan4 mana
- Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass2 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stonesplitter Bolt1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 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
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Boros Signet2 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
Combos with Dihada, Binder of Wills
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Dihada, Binder of Wills is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Dihada, Binder of Wills + Underworld Breach + Flicker2,671 decks
- Dihada, Binder of Wills + Underworld Breach + Mayhem Devil2,141 decks
- Dihada, Binder of Wills + Underworld Breach + Heart Of Kiran173 decks
- Dihada, Binder of Wills + Meticulous Excavation + Crime Novelist102 decks
- Dihada, Binder of Wills + Meticulous Excavation + Kaya, Geist Hunter94 decks
- Dihada, Binder of Wills + Meticulous Excavation + Goldspan Dragon38 decks