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Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Legendary Creature — Vampire Ally · {1}{B}{B} · Black commander

Flying, first strike Whenever Drana deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.
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What Drana, Liberator of Malakir 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 Drana, Liberator of Malakir deck needs

Plays as commander connects — team counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Drana, Liberator of Malakir deck plan

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

Best cards for Drana, Liberator of Malakir

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.

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

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  3. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  4. Hagra Constrictor3 mana
  5. Ninja Teen3 mana
  6. Vampire Nocturnus4 mana
  7. Shadowspear1 mana
  8. Bilbo's Ring3 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  2. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  3. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  4. Walking Ballista0 mana
  5. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  6. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  7. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
  8. Opal Palace0 mana

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

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 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

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  3. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  4. Field of the Dead0 mana
  5. Fountainport0 mana
  6. Grave Titan6 mana
  7. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  8. Spawnbed Protector7 mana

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