Card
Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
Mana cost {2}{W}
Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier 2/2
Flash First strike Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, Anafenza endures 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on it or create a 2/2 white Spirit creature token.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 27 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · TDM · #2
- Cheapest printing
- €0.24
- EDHREC salt
- 0.10
- Color identity
- White
- Keywords
- First strike, Flash, Endure
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
27 known combos.
- Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage + Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colored mana
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
If Anafenza dies at the same time as one or more other nontoken creatures you control, Anafenza’s last ability triggers for each of those other nontoken creatures. - 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
If a noncreature permanent is instructed to endure, the effect is the same. You can put +1/+1 counters on that permanent or create a Spirit token. - 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
You choose whether to put +1/+1 counters on the creature or create a Spirit token as the ability that includes the endure instruction is resolving. No player may take actions between the time you choose and the time that counters are added or tokens are created. - 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
If you can’t put +1/+1 counters on the creature for any reason as an endure ability resolves (for example, if the creature is no longer on the battlefield), you’ll just create a Spirit token.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast