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Haliya, Guided by Light

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

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What a Haliya, Guided by Light deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

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.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  3. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  4. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  5. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  6. Felidar Guardian4 mana
  7. Restoration Angel4 mana
  8. Teleportation Circle4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Haliya, Guided by Light3 mana
  2. Exalted Sunborn5 mana
  3. Rayblade Trooper3 mana
  4. All-Fates Stalker4 mana
  5. Anticausal Vestige6 mana
  6. Starfield Shepherd5 mana
  7. Knight Luminary4 mana
  8. Astelli Reclaimer5 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  3. Lotus Field0 mana
  4. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  5. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  6. Soul Warden1 mana
  7. Soul's Attendant1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Erode1 mana
  7. Getaway Glamer1 mana
  8. Unwanted Remake1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Harsh Mercy3 mana
  8. Retribution of the Meek3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Templar Knight2 mana
  4. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  5. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  6. Loyal Tutor1 mana
  7. Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
  8. Search for Glory3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  4. Smothering Tithe4 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Caretaker's Talent3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Cryptothrall4 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

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