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Appa, the Vigilant — Commander Hub · Mythicwyrm

Legendary Creature — Bison Ally

Appa, the Vigilant

Mana value7Rank#9,389

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The Commander

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Core Cards

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Win Conditions

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▸Alpha strike with a wide, flying, pumped team in a single turn
▸Commander damage from an evasive, anthem-boosted Appa over a few swings
▸Overrun-style finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth or Akroma's Will on a token army

Archetypes

Tokens / Go-Wide — Appa turns a wide board into an evasive, pumped army with each creature that enters.
Allies Tribal — Allies chain ETB triggers off each other and Appa for compounding buffs and flight.
Aggro Midrange — Vigilance and repeated anthems let you attack relentlessly while keeping a strong defense.

Combos

No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.

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Flying, vigilance

Whenever Appa or another Ally you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain flying and vigilance until end of turn.

Flood the board with creatures—especially Allies and tokens—then use Appa's enter trigger to repeatedly pump your team and give it flying and vigilance, swinging in the air for lethal while staying back to block. You build a wide board in the early-mid game and turn each creature entering into an alpha strike enabler.

Each Ally/creature ETB grants evasion (flying) and an anthem, making blockers irrelevant

Vigilance lets you attack and defend simultaneously, great in multiplayer

Mono-white gives access to cheap go-wide tokens, anthems, and strong recursion

Appa himself is a 7-mana evasive vigilant beater that ends games fast

Seven mana is slow and Appa is a removal magnet you must keep recasting

Anthem buffs only last until end of turn, so a wrath resets everything

Mono-white struggles with card advantage and ramp compared to other colors

Ally tribal support is thin, so you lean on generic white tokens to trigger the ability

Hada Freeblade

Cheap Ally that grows your whole team each time another Ally enters, snowballing alongside Appa.

Captain's Claws

Generates a Warrior Ally token on each combat, repeatedly firing Appa's pump-and-fly trigger.

Kabira Takedown

A modal land/spell that helps you survive early and makes an Ally token to enable triggers.

Cathars' Crusade

Stacks permanent +1/+1 counters every time a creature enters, turning your go-wide ETBs into a runaway board.

Akroma's Will

Closes games out of nowhere by granting flying, vigilance, and double strike to your buffed team.

Smothering Tithe

Mono-white's premier ramp and card-advantage engine to power out Appa and rebuild.

Add efficient ramp and protection—Smothering Tithe, mana rocks, Swiftfoot Boots, and Teferi's Protection—so Appa lands earlier and survives removal. Lean into recurring token makers and ETB density (Captain's Claws, Hero of Bladehold, Myr Battlesphere effects) to fire the trigger every turn, then top the curve with overrun payoffs like Craterhoof Behemoth and Cathars' Crusade for explosive, repeatable lethal swings.