Card
Halana and Alena, Partners
Mana cost {2}{R}{G}
Legendary Creature — Human Ranger 2/3
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is Halana and Alena's power. That creature gains haste until end of turn.
Part of 4 known combos, one of them two-card. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · VOW · #239
- Cheapest printing
- €0.44
- EDHREC salt
- 0.29
- Color identity
- Green, Red
- Keywords
- Reach, First strike
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Sage of Hours
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Sage of Hours
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Sage of Hours
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Sage of Hours (early with Sage of Hours)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
4 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Halana and Alena, Partners + Sage of Hours
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Najeela, the Blade-Blossom + Halana and Alena, Partners + Crystalline Crawler
Produces: Infinite colored mana, Infinite combat phases, Infinite creature tokens with haste
View on Commander Spellbook - Najeela, the Blade-Blossom + Halana and Alena, Partners + Cryptic Trilobite + Mycosynth Lattice
Produces: Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to activate abilities, Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities, Infinite combat phases
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-11-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If Halana and Alena's power is somehow negative at the time its triggered ability resolves, you will put no counters on that creature. The effect doesn't remove counters from that creature or give it -1/-1 counters.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast