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Caradora, Heart of Alacria

Legendary Creature — Human Knight

When Caradora enters, you may search your library for a Mount or Vehicle card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature or Vehicle you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
rare
Set
Aetherdrift Promos
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#11886
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Caradora, Heart of Alacria card art
Caradora, Heart of Alacria puts a repeatable untap effect on the board — every time a creature you control dies, Caradora untaps a target creature, turning sacrifice loops into infinite untap engines at essentially no mana cost beyond her casting price. The catch is that she does nothing alone; she needs a steady stream of creature deaths to fire, which means she's a payoff card looking for a shell, not an engine you can jam anywhere. Samut, the Driving Force and Gatta and Luzzu both give her exactly the kind of creature-death density she demands, and in those shells she immediately becomes a priority removal target.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Samut, the Driving Force

Samut, the Driving Force

30.0% of decks · synergy 0.29

Samut, the Driving Force cares about tapping and untapping creatures for value, and Caradora, Heart of Alacria slots in as a free untap trigger on every creature death — in a deck already generating combat steps and sacrifice fodder, Caradora turns Samut's engine from a value loop into a combo-ready machine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Caradora, Heart of Alacria is legal in every major constructed format but is doing real work in exactly one of them: Commander. In Standard, Pioneer, and Modern, a three-mana legendary creature that requires sacrifice support to function is simply too slow and too parasitic to compete with efficient linear strategies. Legacy and Vintage have access to the same combo infrastructure that makes Caradora dangerous, but those formats have faster, more resilient win conditions that don't need her specific piece. Commander is where Caradora, Heart of Alacria thrives — the 100-card singleton environment rewards synergy-dependent engines, the longer game gives her time to operate, and the creature-heavy tables she needs to fire are the norm rather than the exception.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Caradora, Heart of Alacria is deep bulk — easy to pick up in a trade binder or toss into a cart without thinking. Given her combo relevance in Commander, that price could tick up if a popular deck starts championing her, but right now there's no pressure to rush the purchase.

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