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Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Legendary Creature — Spirit Warrior · {2}{R} · Red commander
Haste
Whenever Laelia attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.
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What Laelia, the Blade Reforged 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 · attackWhenever Laelia attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
- Triggered ability · exileWhenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Laelia, the Blade Reforged deck needs
Plays as commander attack — impulse & counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- haste is built in; evasion and protection for Laelia (her attack is the engine)
- effects that exile from your library or graveyard (each grows her)
- extra combats
The Laelia, the Blade Reforged deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 10× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- 8× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 8× 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
- 6× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Laelia, the Blade Reforged
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
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Underworld Breach2 mana
- Faithless Looting1 mana
- Hidden Volcano0 mana
- Lotus Bloom0 mana
- Mox Tantalite0 mana
- Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift3 mana
- Squee, the Immortal3 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Archetype of Aggression3 mana
- Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Ajani's Anguish1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
- Opal Palace0 mana
- Surge Conductor3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
- Hoarding Dragon5 mana
- Shrine Steward5 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
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Combos with Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Laelia, the Blade Reforged is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged + All Will Be One + Virtue Of Courage151 decks
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged + Shalai And Hallar + Virtue Of Courage41 decks