Legendary Creature — Elf Ally

Mina and Denn, Wildborn

Mana value4EDHREC#2,011

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The Commander

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

{R} {G} , Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Guide

Gameplan

Mina and Denn turn extra land drops and the ability to bounce-and-replay lands into a relentless landfall engine. You ramp hard, abuse landfall triggers for damage and tokens, and grind value while occasionally granting trample to push through a big attacker. Most games close out by snowballing a wide board or a single huge creature on the back of explosive mana.

Strengths

Doubles your land drops for fast, consistent ramp and big mana
Bounce ability repeatedly re-triggers landfall payoffs each turn
Cheap, easily-cast commander that fuels Gruul's largest threats
Trample granting helps oversized creatures break through chump blockers

Weaknesses

Reliant on drawing payoffs—without landfall engines the ability is filler
Bouncing your own lands can set you back if disrupted or board-wiped
No card advantage or protection built into the commander
Vulnerable to land destruction and Stax that punish mana investment

Key Cards

Lotus Cobra — Turns every extra and re-played land into a burst of mana for explosive turns.
Avenger of Zendikar — Each landfall pumps your plant army, and Mina lets you re-trigger it by bouncing lands.
Scapeshift — Dumps lands to the battlefield to maximize landfall payoffs and combo finishes.
Tireless Tracker — Generates Clues off landfall and grows huge with all the extra land drops.
Crucible of Worlds — Lets you replay bounced lands from the graveyard for endless landfall value.
Splendid Reclamation — Returns every fetched land at once for a massive landfall blowout.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and ramp (Lotus Cobra, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, Cultivate) plus more landfall payoffs (Rampaging Baloths, Scute Swarm). Lean into Crucible of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator, and Splendid Reclamation to recur lands for repeatable triggers. Top it off with Craterhoof Behemoth or a landfall combo to convert your board state into a decisive win.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Overrun a wide token board built from landfall payoffs
▸Beat down with a trampling, oversized green threat
▸Burn or damage opponents out via Avenger/Rampaging Baloths plus Craterhoof-style finishers
▸Infinite landfall combos (e.g., bouncing lands with free mana for direct damage)

Archetypes

Lands / Landfall — Extra land drops plus the bounce ability make her the premier engine for landfall payoffs.
Ramp Beatdown — Fast mana from doubled land drops powers out giant Gruul threats ahead of schedule.
Tokens — Avenger of Zendikar, Rampaging Baloths, and Scute Swarm flood the board off repeated landfall.
Combo — Loops like Retreat to Coralhelm or infinite landfall engines can close the game outright.