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Yuna, Grand Summoner
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric · {1}{G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander
Grand Summon — {T}: Add one mana of any color. When you next cast a creature spell this turn, that creature enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another permanent you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had one or more counters on it, you may put that number of +1/+1 counters on target creature.
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What Yuna, Grand Summoner 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{T}: Add one mana of any color. When you next cast a creature spell this turn, that creature enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever another permanent you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had one or more counters on it, you may put that number of +1/+1 counters on target creature.
What a Yuna, Grand Summoner deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
- creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
The Yuna, Grand Summoner deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 17× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 14× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Yuna, Grand Summoner
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.
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
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Endless Evil3 mana
- Old-Growth Troll3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Dorothea, Vengeful Victim // Dorothea's Retribution2 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
- Phyrexian Altar3 mana
- Fanatical Devotion3 mana
- Martyr's Cause3 mana
- Greater Good4 mana
- Bound by Moonsilver3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
Combos with Yuna, Grand Summoner
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Yuna, Grand Summoner is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Yuna, Grand Summoner + Freed From The Real5,956 decks
- Yuna, Grand Summoner + Pemmin's Aura4,139 decks
- Yuna, Grand Summoner + Basking Broodscale + Arwen, Weaver Of Hope495 decks
- Yuna, Grand Summoner + Ashnod's Altar329 decks
- Yuna, Grand Summoner + Basking Broodscale + Cathars' Crusade300 decks
- Yuna, Grand Summoner + Ioreth Of The Healing House + Saryth, The Viper's Fang225 decks
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