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Sylvia Brightspear

Sylvia Brightspear

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{W} · White commander

Partner with Khorvath Brightflame (When this creature enters, target player may put Khorvath into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Double strike Dragons your team controls have double strike.
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What Sylvia Brightspear 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 Sylvia Brightspear deck needs

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

The Sylvia Brightspear deck plan

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

Best cards for Sylvia Brightspear

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 body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Clarion Conqueror3 mana
  2. Nadaar, Selfless Paladin3 mana
  3. Sunscorch Regent5 mana
  4. Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light4 mana
  5. Ancient Gold Dragon7 mana
  6. Icingdeath, Frost Tyrant4 mana
  7. Steel Hellkite6 mana
  8. Summon: Bahamut9 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. Herald's Horn3 mana
  4. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  8. Enduring Innocence3 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. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  6. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  7. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  8. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 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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