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Siona, Captain of the Pyleas
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {1}{G}{W} · Green/White commander
When Siona enters, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal an Aura card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Whenever an Aura you control becomes attached to a creature you control, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
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What Siona, Captain of the Pyleas 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 · etbWhen Siona enters, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal an Aura card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever an Aura you control becomes attached to a creature you control, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
What a Siona, Captain of the Pyleas deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
The Siona, Captain of the Pyleas deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 14× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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
Best cards for Siona, Captain of the Pyleas
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
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Emiel the Blessed4 mana
Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Sword of the Animist2 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Paradise Mantle0 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- On Wings of Gold4 mana
- Jasmine Boreal of the Seven3 mana
- Bellowing Tanglewurm5 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Intangible Virtue2 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Inspiring Leader3 mana
- Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
- Gideon's Memorial2 mana
- Mite Overseer4 mana
- Phantom General4 mana
- Finale of Devastation2 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
Combos with Siona, Captain of the Pyleas
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Siona, Captain of the Pyleas is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Siona, Captain of the Pyleas + Shielded By Faith4,910 decks
- Siona, Captain of the Pyleas + Enchanted Evening209 decks
- Siona, Captain of the Pyleas + Reins Of The Vinesteed + Altar Of Dementia97 decks
- Siona, Captain of the Pyleas + Rancor + Phyrexian Altar55 decks
- Siona, Captain of the Pyleas + Reins Of The Vinesteed + Phyrexian Altar26 decks
- Siona, Captain of the Pyleas + Reins Of The Vinesteed + Ashnod's Altar21 decks
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