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Drana, the Last Bloodchief

Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander

Flying Whenever Drana attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

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What Drana, the Last Bloodchief actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Drana attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampi
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Drana, the Last Bloodchief deck needs

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

• bodies worth turning into Vampires — the commander grants the type itself, so a printed vampire package is optional, not the plan
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Drana, the Last Bloodchief deck plan

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

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 15× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Drana, the Last Bloodchief

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.

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