Legendary Creature — Human Noble

Leinore, Autumn Sovereign

Mana value4EDHREC#5,803

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The Commander

Coven — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Then if you control three or more creatures with different powers, draw a card.

Guide

Gameplan

Leinore is a Selesnya counters/go-wide commander who turns a diverse board into card advantage. Each combat she grows a creature and, as long as you control three creatures with different powers, draws you a card — so you flood the board with varied tokens and counter-creatures, then swing wide or tall.

Strengths

Repeatable card draw in GW, a color pair that traditionally struggles for it
Synergizes naturally with token strategies that produce creatures of varying sizes
Cheap four-mana commander that immediately impacts the board
Counter-doubling and proliferate effects accelerate her growth engine

Weaknesses

Card draw is conditional — needs three creatures with different powers, which board wipes shut off
Slow without a developed board; offers little when behind
Lacks built-in evasion or protection, so she dies to spot removal easily
No interaction or reach — vulnerable to faster combo decks

Key Cards

Doubling Season — Doubles every +1/+1 counter and token, supercharging both Leinore's growth and your power-diversity.
Hardened Scales — Cheaply amplifies the counters Leinore places and helps create varied powers.
Esper Sentinel — Extra card advantage and a creature that supports the coven-style power diversity.
Cathars' Crusade — Each token entering pumps everything, generating varied powers and a snowballing board.
Branching Evolution — More counters per trigger means faster, bigger threats and reliable power differences.
Heroic Intervention — Protects your wide board from the wraths that turn off Leinore's engine.

Upgrade Path

Lean into either tokens or counters and add payoffs like Craterhoof Behemoth, Overwhelming Stampede, or Triumph of the Hordes to close games. Add proliferate and counter-doublers (Branching Evolution, Innkeeper's Talent) plus protection (Heroic Intervention, Teferi's Protection) so wraths don't shut off your engine. Improve mana with Selesnya staples like Smothering Tithe, fast rocks, and efficient ramp to deploy your wide board faster.

Core Cards

From 1 Mythicwyrm deck.

Win Conditions

▸Alpha strike with an anthem or Overrun-style effect like Craterhoof Behemoth
▸Out-value opponents through repeated card draw and snowballing counters
▸Pump a single evasive creature into a Voltron-style threat with counters

Archetypes

Tokens — Going wide naturally produces creatures of differing powers to enable the coven draw.
+1/+1 Counters — Leinore distributes counters every combat, rewarding counter-matters payoffs.
Go-Wide Aggro — A diverse board both fuels card draw and presents lethal Overrun-style swings.
Value Midrange — Steady card advantage and incremental growth grind opponents out over time.