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Layla Hassan

Layla Hassan

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin · {3}{W} · White commander

First strike When Layla Hassan enters and whenever one or more Assassins you control deal combat damage to a player, return target historic card from your graveyard to your hand.
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What Layla Hassan actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Layla Hassan deck needs

Plays as assassin typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Layla Hassan deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Layla Hassan

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 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield

  1. Gingerbrute1 mana
  2. Soltari Foot Soldier1 mana
  3. Skrelv, Defector Mite1 mana
  4. Signal Pest1 mana
  5. Ornithopter0 mana
  6. Beloved Princess1 mana
  7. Prehistoric Pet1 mana
  8. Goldmeadow Dodger1 mana

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

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  4. Flickerwisp3 mana
  5. Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
  6. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  7. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  8. Felidar Guardian4 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Elena, Turk Recruit3 mana
  2. Virulent Silencer3 mana
  3. Layla Hassan4 mana
  4. All-Fates Stalker4 mana

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

  1. Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
  2. Spirited Companion2 mana
  3. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  4. Loran of the Third Path3 mana
  5. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  6. Helpful Hunter2 mana
  7. Loyal Warhound2 mana
  8. Wall of Omens2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  2. Millikin2 mana
  3. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  4. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  5. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  6. Sequestered Stash0 mana
  7. Excavated Wall1 mana
  8. Wand of Vertebrae1 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. Generous Gift3 mana
  5. Erode1 mana
  6. Unwanted Remake1 mana
  7. Angelic Ascension2 mana
  8. You Cannot Pass!1 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

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Day of Judgment4 mana
  4. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  5. Split Up3 mana
  6. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  7. Depopulate4 mana
  8. No Witnesses4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Herald's Horn3 mana
  4. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  8. Enduring Innocence3 mana

Combos with Layla Hassan

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Layla Hassan is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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