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Halana and Alena, Partners

Legendary Creature — Human Ranger

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.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
rare
Set
Innistrad: Double Feature
Price
$1.55
EDHREC rank
#1950
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Halana and Alena, Partners card art
Halana and Alena, Partners enters and immediately puts a +1/+1 counter on another creature equal to its power — that's free stat inflation and a haste grant stapled to a 3/3 reach body for four mana. The cost is real: four mana at sorcery speed means it dies to interaction before the trigger resolves, and it needs a power-relevant board to do anything, but pairing it with counters engines like Agatha of the Vile Cauldron or extra-turn setups through Sage of Hours makes that four-mana investment pay enormous dividends.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron

Agatha of the Vile Cauldron

69.5% of decks · synergy 0.59

Agatha of the Vile Cauldron exiles creatures and lets other creatures spend mana as though they had those abilities — Halana and Alena, Partners contributes both the +1/+1 counter distribution and haste-granting effects that Agatha's activated-ability creatures can exploit to snowball counters across the board.

02
Me, the Immortal

Me, the Immortal

53.4% of decks · synergy 0.52

Me, the Immortal cares about creatures with counters and generates tokens that grow over time, making Halana and Alena, Partners a natural accelerant that drops a large counter on a freshly made threat and gives it haste to swing the same turn.

03
Wolverine, Best There Is

Wolverine, Best There Is

56.8% of decks · synergy 0.47

Wolverine, Best There Is puts poison counters on blockers and rewards attacking with a powerful creature, and Halana and Alena, Partners gives Wolverine itself haste on arrival while inflating the power of whatever threat is already on the board waiting to trigger infect.

04
Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes

Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes

55.5% of decks · synergy 0.46

Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes generates a Hamster token that gets buffed and benefits from trample, and Halana and Alena, Partners feeds that engine directly — dropping a big counter onto Boo and granting haste so the lethal trample swing happens the same turn Minsc activates.

05
Shalai and Hallar

Shalai and Hallar

49.8% of decks · synergy 0.45

Shalai and Hallar triggers whenever a counter is placed on any creature, and Halana and Alena, Partners fires that trigger immediately on entry by distributing a +1/+1 counter, essentially converting a curve play into free damage on top of a power boost.

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

Halana and Alena, Partners is legal in every major constructed format but sees essentially zero play outside Commander — four mana for a 3/3 in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer competes against formats where that slot demands immediate game-ending impact. In Commander, the card is genuinely strong: the combination of haste-granting and power-scaled counter distribution is unique enough that decks built around +1/+1 counters, big-power creatures, or activated abilities treat it as a reliable engine piece rather than a flex slot. As a commander itself, the deck archetype is coherent — Gruul stompy with a self-fueling counter engine — though it lacks the raw power ceiling of dedicated infinite-combo commanders at higher tables.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.55 cheap tier

At $1.55, Halana and Alena, Partners sits at a price point that reflects wide availability and modest competitive demand outside Commander. The value is stable — it's a unique enough effect in counters strategies that it won't crater, but there's no pressure driver to push it higher.

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