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Alena, Kessig Trapper

Legendary Creature — Human Scout

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.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Legends
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7682
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Alena, Kessig Trapper card art
Alena, Kessig Trapper generates red mana equal to the highest power among creatures you controlled that entered this turn — pair her with one big creature and she can fuel an Aggravated Assault activation on the spot. The cost is a legendary two-drop slot and the requirement to keep attacking, but in any red deck built around high-power threats, she's a free engine stapled to a body. Tannuk, Steadfast Second decks hit 42% inclusion for a reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Tannuk, Steadfast Second

Tannuk, Steadfast Second

42.6% of decks · synergy 0.41

Tannuk, Steadfast Second pairs directly with Alena, Kessig Trapper as her canonical partner, and 42% of Tannuk decks run her for good reason — Alena converts the first big creature hitting the battlefield each turn into an immediate mana surplus that Tannuk's untap ability can then reload.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Alena, Kessig Trapper is a Commander card through and through — the mana ability rewards the format's singleton, high-power-creature density, and the legendary Partner clause exists specifically to enable multi-commander builds. In Commander she slots into any red deck running large threats, with her ceiling in dedicated Tannuk, Steadfast Second pairings or big-red shells that want to chain combat steps. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal homes, but two-mana creatures that generate mana conditionally have no path to those 60-card formats when faster, unconditional options exist. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home given the condensed game length and emphasis on resolving a single powerful spell repeatedly.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

668 decks
Staff of DominationAlena, Kessig Trapper

Staff of DominationAlena, Kessig Trapper

Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite red mana

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Umbral MantleAlena, Kessig Trapper

Umbral MantleAlena, Kessig Trapper

Infinite red mana; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Alena, Kessig Trapper isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. As a Partner commander with a 42% inclusion rate in her primary archetype, demand is real — expect a non-trivial foil premium if you're looking at that treatment.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.