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Halana and Alena, Partners
Legendary Creature — Human Ranger · {2}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is Halana and Alena's power. That creature gains haste until end of turn.
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What Halana and Alena, Partners 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 · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is Halana and Alena's power. That creature gains haste until end of turn.
- Keyword · reachreach
- Keyword · first strikefirst strike
What a Halana and Alena, Partners deck needs
Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures with attack triggers or evasion to receive X counters and haste each combat
- pump for the commander (its power sets X)
- creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters
The Halana and Alena, Partners deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 28× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 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
- 10× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Halana and Alena, Partners
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
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Gruul Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Halana and Alena, Partners
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Halana and Alena, Partners is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Halana and Alena, Partners + Sage Of Hours133 decks
- Halana and Alena, Partners + Najeela, The Blade-Blossom + Crystalline Crawler6 decks
- Halana and Alena, Partners + Najeela, The Blade-Blossom + Cryptic Trilobite + Chromatic Orrery1 decks
- Halana and Alena, Partners + Najeela, The Blade-Blossom + Cryptic Trilobite + Mycosynth Lattice1 decks