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Linvala, the Preserver

Linvala, the Preserver

Legendary Creature — Angel · {4}{W}{W} · White commander

Flying When Linvala enters, if an opponent has more life than you, you gain 5 life. When Linvala enters, if an opponent controls more creatures than you, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying.
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What Linvala, the Preserver 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 Linvala, the Preserver deck needs

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

The Linvala, the Preserver deck plan

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

Best cards for Linvala, the Preserver

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. 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

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Akroma's Will4 mana
  2. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  3. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  4. The Wind Crystal4 mana
  5. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  6. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Toby, Beastie Befriender3 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

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. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  6. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  7. Enduring Innocence3 mana
  8. Mentor of the Meek3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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