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Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
Legendary Creature — Elemental God // Legendary Creature — Elemental God · {3}{W}{W} · Black/White commander
Flying, lifelink
Creature spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting a creature spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Eirdu.
Flying, lifelink
Each other nontoken creature you control has persist. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {W}. If you do, transform Isilu.
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What Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight 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 · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Eirdu.
- Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {W}. If you do, transform Isilu.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · lifelinklifelink
- Keyword · transformtransform
What an Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 32× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
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.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Secret Tunnel0 mana
- Akroma's Will4 mana
- Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
- Enter the Avatar State1 mana
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- The Wind Crystal4 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Lesser Masticore2 mana
- Putrid Goblin2 mana
- Obstinate Gargoyle3 mana
- Persistent Constrictor5 mana
- Puppeteer Clique5 mana
- Restless Apparition3 mana
- Lingering Tormentor4 mana
- Kithkin Spellduster5 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
- Flicker of Fate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Final Showdown1 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Amalia Benavides Aguirre2 mana
- Do or Die2 mana
- Martyr's Cry2 mana
- Pest Control2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Split Up3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Greater Auramancy2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana