Garnet, Princess of Alexandria
FIN · uncommon · Released 2025-06-13
Power
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Derived from the 7 atoms below.
on rate
minor value alone
needs a shell
scales up
one mode
situational
easily answered
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Rationale
Garnet is a 2/2 lifelink attacker whose growth engine requires attacking while controlling Sagas — removing lore counters adds +1/+1 counters, scaling her into a voltron threat. She demands a dedicated Saga-heavy shell (GW enchantments/sagas), making her signature in saga-matters voltron builds but negligible outside them. Limited: fringe — Sagas are sparse in most draft environments.
Learnings (3)
Garnet's counter trigger removes lore counters from Sagas, effectively resetting or extending their chapter progression — this can be used deliberately to replay earlier chapters if a Saga would otherwise advance to its final lore counter and sacrifice itself.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Removing lore counters with Garnet stalls Saga advancement, which can be a liability if you need Sagas to finish for payoffs; balance between growing Garnet and completing your Sagas is a real deck-building tension.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
In a GW Sagas deck, Garnet pairs especially well with Sagas that have powerful early chapters (I or II) since rolling back counters lets you retrigger those chapters repeatedly via The Saga rules on the upkeep trigger.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #4,842