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Galadriel, Light of Valinor
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble · {2}{G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander
What Galadriel, Light of Valinor 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 · etbWhenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
What a Galadriel, Light of Valinor deck needs
Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
- creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
The Galadriel, Light of Valinor deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 17× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 15× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Galadriel, Light of Valinor
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.
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Conclave Mentor2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Soulherder3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
Combos with Galadriel, Light of Valinor
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Galadriel, Light of Valinor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Galadriel, Light of Valinor + Emiel The Blessed + Spark Double758 decks
- Galadriel, Light of Valinor + Emiel The Blessed + Sakashima Of A Thousand Faces411 decks
- Galadriel, Light of Valinor + Emiel The Blessed + Sakashima The Impostor316 decks
- Galadriel, Light of Valinor + Emiel The Blessed + Biomancer's Familiar256 decks
- Galadriel, Light of Valinor + Emiel The Blessed + Training Grounds182 decks
- Galadriel, Light of Valinor + Emiel The Blessed + Chameleon, Master Of Disguise74 decks
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