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Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander
Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda.
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.
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What Elenda, the Dusk Rose 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 · deathWhenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda.
- Triggered ability · deathWhen Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.
- Keyword · lifelinklifelink
What an Elenda, the Dusk Rose deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
- counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
The Elenda, the Dusk Rose deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 9× 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
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Elenda, the Dusk Rose
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 +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Generous Pup2 mana
- Martyr for the Cause2 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Bartolomé del Presidio2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Cartel Aristocrat2 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 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Elenda, the Dusk Rose is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar1,832 decks
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose + Phyrexian Altar + Blade Of The Bloodchief1,637 decks
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar1,243 decks
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose + Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar1,093 decks
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose + Felisa, Fang Of Silverquill + Phyrexian Altar588 decks
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose + Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation + Phyrexian Altar202 decks