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Laelia, the Blade Reforged

Legendary Creature — Spirit Warrior

Haste
Whenever Laelia attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2021
Price
$2.62
EDHREC rank
#1311
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Laelia, the Blade Reforged card art
Laelia, the Blade Reforged enters as a 1/1 and quickly outgrows that — every time you exile a card from the top of your library or your graveyard, she gets a +1/+1 counter and grants haste to herself and your attackers, turning any impulse-draw engine into a clock. She slots cleanly into exile-matters decks like All Will Be One builds that need a redundant threat, and she's the most-played card in Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald lists precisely because Faldorn's wolf tokens and Laelia's counters feed off the same exile triggers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

82.4% of decks · synergy 0.79

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald triggers on playing cards exiled from the top of your library, and Laelia, the Blade Reforged triggers on the same exile events — every spell cast off the top grows both Laelia and Faldorn's wolf count simultaneously, making the two effectively a two-card engine in one command zone.

02
Gornog, the Red Reaper

Gornog, the Red Reaper

76.4% of decks · synergy 0.71

Gornog, the Red Reaper cares about power in the red zone, and Laelia, the Blade Reforged supplies a creature that gets larger every turn while granting haste to the team — Laelia's counters compound quickly enough to hit the thresholds Gornog, the Red Reaper rewards with extra damage.

04
Prosper, Tome-Bound

Prosper, Tome-Bound

68.3% of decks · synergy 0.65

Prosper, Tome-Bound exiles a card at end of turn every turn, and that single trigger is enough to put a counter on Laelia, the Blade Reforged and enable her haste grant — over a long game, Laelia becomes a sizeable threat powered entirely by Prosper, Tome-Bound's passive.

05

Gwen Stacy

67.4% of decks · synergy 0.65

Gwen Stacy's web-slinging triggers exile effects repeatedly through combat, and Laelia, the Blade Reforged converts each of those exiles into a +1/+1 counter — the two stack damage and counters in parallel, making Laelia one of the most efficient supporting threats in a Gwen Stacy list.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Laelia, the Blade Reforged lives — the format's longer games give her enough time to accumulate counters and the density of impulse-draw effects in red means triggers come often. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically playable but rarely chosen; those formats end before she can grow meaningfully, and red there prefers faster threats. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if your signature spell is an impulse effect, since that's a reliable early trigger on a compressed clock. She's not legal in Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so Commander and the older eternal formats are the full scope.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.62 cheap tier

At $2.62, Laelia, the Blade Reforged sits at the low end of the rare curve — cheap enough to include as a supporting piece in exile-matters builds without a second thought. Given her high inclusion rates across multiple top commanders, the price reflects broad demand without pushing into staple territory, and it's unlikely to drop further.

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