Halana, Kessig Ranger

Legendary Creature — Human Archer

Reach

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {2}. When you do, that creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature.

Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Discussion (14)

legendofa on Ray Fe Laz, Scorpion Trainer

1 month ago

Scorpions, I'm in.

You could lean into the deathtouch landspam with Hooded Blightfang, Halana, Kessig Ranger, and maybe Fynn, the Fangbearer.

Anything that gives mass trample and +P/+T is always good. Add a pile of deathtouchers, and someone is gonna break in half.

Brian-123 on

3 months ago

Nyx Lotus would be stupid powerful in this deck and as a game finisher Hurricane and 4 other cards that could work out well Primal Rage, Primal Surge now this card is 10 mana but your only running 6 non-permanents so you have a great chance in dumping your deck out for free. Descendants' Path is a great card basically every up keep if a hydra is on top play it for free before your draw step or it goes on the bottom. Halana, Kessig Ranger might be nasty to just blow a creature out of the way.

SpecimeN87 on DDMG Deck 4: Constant Contagion

8 months ago

A card to consider, in the spirit of using a Hunters precision, Halana, Kessig Ranger as a spotter to kill off opposing minions on your way to kill the BBEG.

1empyrean on Chevill, Chevalier Chevreuil

8 months ago

I just swapped Halana, Kessig Ranger in to replace Ancient Greenwarden. Kogla, the Titan Ape's activated ability is now even more useful.

Caerwyn on LGBTQ+ in the multiverse

9 months ago

Halana, Kessig Ranger and Alena, Kessig Trapper are married.

Ral, Izzet Viceroy and Tomik, Distinguished Advokist are in a relationship - in the two cards linked, you can even see that Ral is carrying a piece of Tomik’s white cloth and Tomik a piece of Ral’s red cloth to indicate their connection.

Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter’s character blurb mentions how her wife died.

iammute on Kresh ball lightning tribal

9 months ago

Alena, Kessig Trapper could be budge alternative to Selvala. Halana, Kessig Ranger could do some work here too

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

9 months ago

Livio's Blessing

Legendary Enchantment

Whenever you exile a creature, it's controller draws a card and you gain 1 life.

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I'm not entirely certain, but Livio seems to want to be built around ETB effects. Exile your own creatures, then bring them back into one massive drop; For example, Luminate Primordial would be an incredibly strong blink creature. Sure your opponents gain a ton of life, but you remove their biggest threats permanently. Additionally, as he has Partner, you can add in for something such as Woodfall Primus or Terastodon . You could even use use Meteor Golem . If you run Selesnya, you're already in extremely strong ramp territory as green loves to ramp with creatures and white loves to make creatures. Suddenly your Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun , Gaea's Cradle and Cryptolith Rite look astounding. Not to mention Circle of Dreams Druid and, if you use enchantments to protect yourself such as a Prison / Stax deck, Serra's Sanctum . There's also Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx , Nyxbloom Ancient and Mana Reflection .

Hone in the strategy with Trostani, Selesnya's Voice and similar life-gaining creatures such as Suture Priest , Soul Warden , Soul's Attendant , Angelic Chorus and Essence Warden for a massive gap between you and your opponents.

I mentioned prisons; Norn's Annex , Ghostly Prison and Ensnaring Bridge are obviously staples. There's more, but I'm tired and not feeling the best today.

Anyway, there ya go. A skeleton for a down and dirty Selesnya deck. Go have some fun with it.

Since you are going for extreme ramp and board presence, I'd recommend Partnering with Halana, Kessig Ranger so that when they enter you can pay and have removal-on-a-stick, too.

Kodama of the East Tree would be nice but that's a trap. You'll be outed as the archenemy at the table on Turn 0. Sure you get to cheat a bunch of things into play, but that doesn't help advance your wincon. I'd rather see Halana in the Command Zone for that removal option, so that the creatures we are playing around with can get through and finish the game off quickly. You're going creature-heavy, so use them.

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Wild.

Gobboleone on PDH Tormod/Halana

10 months ago

Hi again Nanten91, thanks for your new suggestionen!  

I considered running mass removal and if I would, Crypt Rats  and  Pestilence would certainly be my first choices. But since I am the one who tries to have the widest boardstate with this deck, I found a boardwipe would hurt me most too often. Also the deck is very dependent on Tormod, the Desecrator being alive, so I do not want to kill him myself.

The Everflowing Chalice is in my opinion better than the other options, because it scales better with the later phases of the game by helping to activate Halana, Kessig Ranger or pay for commandertax. Most people in PDH prefer mana rocks like  Arcane Signet  because they can tap immediately, but with this deck, I assume the green sorceries suit me better, because they leave a card in the graveyard afterwards. Oh an I just hate Wayfarer's Bauble , I feel its an overhyped and pretty bad card.

On another topic: If you like my Deck and are interested in PDH, why don't you join us on the discord? you can find the link on this site: https://www.pdhhomebase.ca/

There are a lot of people to discuss decks or play online with there....