Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
LegalRank #507
Adeline's power is equal to the number of creatures you control.
Whenever you attack, for each opponent, create a 1/1 white Human creature token that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control.
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KeywordsVigilance
Why is this card good?
Adeline is one of the best aggressive white three-drops in Commander. She snowballs immediately: every combat she makes a token per opponent, which both widens your board and grows her own power (since it scales with creature count). With vigilance, she attacks and still blocks, so she's never a liability.
Who wants her: White and Mardu/Boros token and go-wide aggro decks, plus aristocrats shells that want a steady stream of bodies to sacrifice. She's excellent as a commander herself for low-curve white weenie, and a slam-dunk include in decks like Isshin (which doubles her trigger into two tokens per opponent), Krenko-style swarms, or any anthem/Cathars' Crusade build.
Synergies: anthems, Cathars' Crusade, Mentor, sacrifice outlets, and extra-combat effects all amplify her hard.
When to skip her: control, combo, or spellslinger decks that don't attack, and slow durdle builds where her tokens just chump-attack into nothing. She rewards being the aggressor — if you're not pressuring life totals, she underperforms.
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Rulings (5)
- 2021-09-24
The ability that defines Adeline's power works in all zones, not just the battlefield. As long as Adeline is on the battlefield (and still a creature), that ability will count Adeline itself.
- 2021-09-24
Attacking with any creatures will cause Adeline's last ability to trigger. Adeline doesn't have to be among them.
- 2021-09-24
Tokens will be created for each of your opponents, not just opponents that you attacked.
- 2021-09-24
You choose whether each token is attacking that opponent or a planeswalker they control as those tokens enter the battlefield.
- 2021-09-24
Although the Human tokens created by the triggered ability are attacking, they were never declared as attacking creatures (for the purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).