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Shalai, Voice of Plenty
Legendary Creature — Angel · {3}{W} · Green/White commander
Flying
You, planeswalkers you control, and other creatures you control have hexproof.
{4}{G}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
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What Shalai, Voice of Plenty actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{4}{G}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- Static ability · keyword_grantYou, planeswalkers you control, and other creatures you control have hexproof.
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Shalai, Voice of Plenty deck needs
Plays as hexproof team & counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures worth protecting
- +1/+1 counter payoffs
- mana for the counter activation
The Shalai, Voice of Plenty deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- 10× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- 15× 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
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Shalai, Voice of Plenty
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 permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Cleric Class1 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Mirror Entity3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Birds of Paradise1 mana
- Delighted Halfling1 mana
- Elvish Mystic1 mana
- Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Conclave Mentor2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Eladamri's Call2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Selesnya Signet2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Shalai, Voice of Plenty
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Shalai, Voice of Plenty is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Shalai, Voice of Plenty + Crystalline Crawler + Cryptic Trilobite + Branching Evolution50 decks
- Shalai, Voice of Plenty + Crystalline Crawler + Cryptic Trilobite + Doubling Season36 decks
- Shalai, Voice of Plenty + Crystalline Crawler + Cryptic Trilobite + Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider16 decks
- Shalai, Voice of Plenty + Crystalline Crawler + Cryptic Trilobite + Primal Vigor16 decks
- Shalai, Voice of Plenty + Crystalline Crawler + Cryptic Trilobite + Pir, Imaginative Rascal14 decks