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Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

Legendary Creature — Dog · {1}{W} · White commander

Flash Whenever Phelia attacks, exile up to one other target nonland permanent. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it entered under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Phelia.

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What Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 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 Phelia attacks, exile up to one other target nonland permanent. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it entered under your
• Keyword · flashflash

What a Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd deck needs

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

• haste, evasion and protection for the commander (its own attack is the engine)
• permanents with enter-the-battlefield triggers to blink (each attack re-buys one ETB and grows Phelia)
• tempo — the same trigger exiles an opposing blocker or token for a turn

The Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 6× 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
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

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.

Combos with Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd + Timestream Navigator + Recruiter Of The Guard14 decks
• Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd + Wormfang Manta + Hushbringer5 decks
• Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd + Wormfang Manta + Torpor Orb4 decks
• Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd + Wormfang Manta + Doorkeeper Thrull4 decks
• Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd + Wormfang Manta + Hushwing Gryff2 decks
• Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd + Wormfang Manta + Tocatli Honor Guard2 decks

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