Yuna, Grand Summoner

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Yuna is a 4cmc mana-dork commander that both ramps/fixes mana and places +1/+1 counters on creatures you cast; her second ability converts deaths of counter-laden permanents into counter transfers, making her a strong engine in +1/+1 counters and aristocrats-style decks. She is signature in counters-voltron and plus-one-counters shells where the mana ability accelerates deployment of large threats, and in sacrifice/aristocrats lists that constantly churn permanents with counters. Her ramp output is modest (1 mana per activation) and the creature-spell trigger is once per turn, limiting ceiling in highly optimized play.

• Yuna's tap ability is a mana ability (adds mana) whose triggered rider — 'when you next cast a creature spell this turn, it enters with two additional +1/+1 counters' — is a separate triggered ability that goes on the stack; responses to the trigger can be played before the creature spell is cast.

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• The death-trigger counter transfer requires the permanent to have had counters on it at the time it was put into the graveyard; counters removed before the permanent dies will not satisfy the condition.

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• In Brawl/Commander, Yuna's Simic-white color identity opens access to Hardened Scales, Vorinclex, and similar counter-doublers that turn her two-counter rider into four or more, dramatically accelerating counters-voltron strategies.

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• EDHREC rank: #3,878