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Yahenni, Undying Partisan
Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Vampire · {2}{B} · Black commander
Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.
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What Yahenni, Undying Partisan 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 · deathWhenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
- Activated abilitySacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Yahenni, Undying Partisan deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- removal, deathtouch and one-sided sweepers (its payoff is the opponents' creatures dying)
- expendable creatures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander is a sacrifice outlet)
- counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
The Yahenni, Undying Partisan deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 21× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 12× 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 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
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.
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Nurgle's Rot1 mana
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
- Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Enduring Tenacity4 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
- Opal Palace0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Yahenni, Undying Partisan
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Yahenni, Undying Partisan is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Luminous Broodmoth11,413 decks
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Cathars' Crusade8,161 decks
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed7,877 decks
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Teysa Karlov6,591 decks
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer6,447 decks
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Thran Vigil6,222 decks