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Drana and Linvala
Legendary Creature — Vampire Angel · {1}{W}{W}{B} · Black/White commander
What Drana and Linvala actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Static ability · hoserActivated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.
- Static ability · ability_shareDrana and Linvala has all activated abilities of all creatures your opponents control. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
What a Drana and Linvala deck needs
Plays as stax. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- stax pieces, taxes and hatebears that break parity in your favor (she already shuts off opposing activated abilities)
- protection for the commander (a 6-mana engine that every opponent wants dead)
- mana of any color is granted for the borrowed abilities — no fixing needed
The Drana and Linvala deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 7× 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
- 9× Refill your hand
- 8× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Drana and Linvala
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 tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Ghostly Prison3 mana
- Blind Obedience2 mana
- Drannith Magistrate2 mana
- Deafening Silence1 mana
- Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
- Opposition Agent3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 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
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 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
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Drana and Linvala
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Drana and Linvala is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Drana and Linvala + Kormus Bell + Urborg, Tomb Of Yawgmoth332 decks
- Drana and Linvala + Living Plane157 decks
- Drana and Linvala + Nature's Revolt150 decks
- Drana and Linvala + Yavimaya, Cradle Of Growth + Life And Limb54 decks
- Drana and Linvala + Yavimaya, Cradle Of Growth + Living Lands44 decks
- Drana and Linvala + Asmodeus The Archfiend + Fractured Identity2 decks
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