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Giada, Font of Hope
Legendary Creature — Angel · {1}{W} · White commander
Flying, vigilance
Each other Angel you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Angel you already control.
{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an Angel spell.
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What Giada, Font of Hope actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an Angel spell.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
What a Giada, Font of Hope deck needs
Plays as angel typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- creatures and +1/+1 counter synergies (each one enters bigger)
- angel creatures (its text counts them)
The Giada, Font of Hope deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 27× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 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
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Giada, Font of Hope
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 body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Giada, Font of Hope2 mana
- Segovian Angel1 mana
- Lightstall Inquisitor1 mana
- Angel of Vitality3 mana
- Inspiring Overseer3 mana
- Resplendent Angel3 mana
- Righteous Valkyrie3 mana
- Youthful Valkyrie2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
- Generous Pup2 mana
- Martyr for the Cause2 mana
- Cenn's Tactician1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
- You Cannot Pass!1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
- Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
- Search for Glory3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 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
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Giada, Font of Hope
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Giada, Font of Hope is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Giada, Font of Hope + Twilight Shepherd + Altar Of Dementia360 decks
- Giada, Font of Hope + Twilight Shepherd + Shilgengar, Sire Of Famine359 decks
- Giada, Font of Hope + Twilight Shepherd + Ashnod's Altar183 decks
- Giada, Font of Hope + Twilight Shepherd + Phyrexian Altar173 decks
- Giada, Font of Hope + Twilight Shepherd + Blasting Station70 decks
- Giada, Font of Hope + Twilight Shepherd + Umbral Collar Zealot25 decks