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Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen

Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen

Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior · {2}{G}{G} · Green commander

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever Dwynen attacks, you gain 1 life for each attacking Elf you control.
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What Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen 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 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen deck needs

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

The Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen deck plan

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

Best cards for Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana
  8. Ellywick Tumblestrum4 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  2. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
  3. Llanowar Elves1 mana
  4. Arbor Elf1 mana
  5. Bloom Tender2 mana
  6. Allosaurus Shepherd1 mana
  7. Boreal Druid1 mana
  8. Elvish Reclaimer1 mana

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

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  3. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  4. Bellowing Tanglewurm5 mana
  5. Primal Rage2 mana
  6. Tanglewalker3 mana
  7. Rancor1 mana
  8. Shadowspear1 mana

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

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  3. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  4. Wrenn and Seven5 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Rampant Frogantua3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Fountainport0 mana

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

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Nature's Claim1 mana
  3. Emerald Charm1 mana
  4. Naturalize2 mana
  5. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  6. Natural State1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Archdruid's Charm3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Needle Storm3 mana
  3. Hurricane1 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Season of Gathering6 mana
  6. Gale Force5 mana
  7. Corrosive Gale1 mana
  8. Tropical Storm1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  4. Herald's Horn3 mana
  5. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Elemental Bond3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

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