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Haliya, Guided by Light
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {2}{W} · White commander
Whenever Haliya or another creature or artifact you control enters, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Warp {W} (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
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What Haliya, Guided by Light 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 Haliya or another creature or artifact you control enters, you gain 1 life.
- Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
- Keyword · warpwarp
What a Haliya, Guided by Light deck needs
Plays as lifegain. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures and artifacts entering every turn — cheap bodies, tokens, blink and recursion (each one gains a life)
- three life in a turn draws a card — cheap artifacts and creature streams make that every turn
- lifegain payoffs (Ajani's Pridemate class)
The Haliya, Guided by Light deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 16× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- 6× 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
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Haliya, Guided by Light
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 of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Lotus Petal0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
- Ornithopter0 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Helpful Hunter2 mana
- Loyal Warhound2 mana
- Wall of Omens2 mana
Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- Inventors' Fair0 mana
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Zuran Orb0 mana
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Serra Ascendant1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Soul Warden1 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Felidar Guardian4 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
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Mentor of the Meek3 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
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
Combos with Haliya, Guided by Light
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Haliya, Guided by Light is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Haliya, Guided by Light + Sensei's Divining Top + Bolas's Citadel1,009 decks
- Haliya, Guided by Light + Kwia Vigorbloom + Emiel The Blessed967 decks
- Haliya, Guided by Light + Cleric Class + Scurry Oak569 decks
- Haliya, Guided by Light + Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Scurry Oak563 decks
- Haliya, Guided by Light + Archangel Of Thune + Scurry Oak459 decks
- Haliya, Guided by Light + Basking Broodscale + Heliod, Sun-Crowned352 decks
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