Card
Alena, Kessig Trapper
Mana cost {4}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Scout 4/3
First strike {T}: Add an amount of {R} equal to the greatest power among creatures you control that entered this turn. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Part of 80 known combos, 6 of them two-card. 10 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · CMR · #160
- Cheapest printing
- €0.13
- EDHREC salt
- 0.25
- Color identity
- Red
- Keywords
- First strike, Partner
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Aggravated Assault, Staff of Domination, Umbral Mantle, Sword of the Paruns, Singing Bell Strike, Ringing Strike Mastery
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Aggravated Assault, Staff of Domination, Umbral Mantle, Sword of the Paruns, Singing Bell Strike, Ringing Strike Mastery
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Aggravated Assault, Staff of Domination, Umbral Mantle, Sword of the Paruns, Singing Bell Strike, Ringing Strike Mastery
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Aggravated Assault, Staff of Domination, Umbral Mantle, Sword of the Paruns, Singing Bell Strike, Ringing Strike Mastery (early with Aggravated Assault, Staff of Domination, Umbral Mantle, Sword of the Paruns, Singing Bell Strike, Ringing Strike Mastery)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
80 known combos, 6 of them two-card.
- Alena, Kessig Trapper + Aggravated Assault
Produces: Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook - Staff of Domination + Alena, Kessig Trapper
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Umbral Mantle + Alena, Kessig Trapper
Produces: Infinite red mana, Infinitely large creature until end of turn, Infinite untap of creatures you control
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Creatures that are no longer on the battlefield won't be considered for Alena's mana ability, even if they entered that turn. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
To have two commanders, both must have the partner ability as the game begins. Losing the ability during the game doesn't cause either to cease to be your commander. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can only include cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities. If Falthis and Kediss are your commanders, your deck may contain cards with black and/or red in their color identity, but not cards with green, white, or blue. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
You can choose two commanders with partner that are the same color or colors. In Commander Draft, you can even choose two of the same commander with partner if you drafted them. If you do this, make sure you keep the number of times you've cast each from the command zone clear for "commander tax" purposes. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
A creature you control that entered the battlefield as a noncreature permanent and/or under another player's control will be counted for Alena's mana ability. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Alena's activated ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to. Players can't attempt to change a creature's power in response to it. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast