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Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric · {G}{W} · Green/White commander

Lifelink Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature if its power is less than Shelinda's power. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on Shelinda.

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What Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte 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 · etbWhenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature if its power is less than Shelinda's power. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on Shelinda.
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink

What a Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte deck needs

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

• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)

The Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte deck plan

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

• 18× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 16× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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 Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte

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 Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar16 decks
• Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte + Animation Module + Phyrexian Altar10 decks
• Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte + Animation Module + Earthcraft4 decks
• Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte + Animation Module + Krark-Clan Ironworks1 decks
• Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte + Animation Module + Thermopod1 decks

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