: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell doesn't target a creature you control, it costs more to cast this way. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only once each turn. (You still pay the spell's costs. Timing rules for the spell still apply.)
Mavinda is a mono-white spellslinger commander built around recasting buff and protection spells from your graveyard to pump and protect a single threat. Each turn you suit up an attacker with Auras and combat tricks, then use Mavinda's ability to rebuy a spell that targets one of your creatures, generating absurd value while pushing in lethal commander damage. You play a tempo-heavy game, holding up tricks to win combat and rebuild after wraths by recurring your best buff.
Free, repeatable spell recursion that keeps your threats growing and protected against removal
Mono-white consistency makes the manabase trivial and frees up budget for spells
Excellent at grinding through removal-heavy or combat-heavy tables via constant rebuys
Low mana value (3) means easy and repeated recasts after she dies
Mono-white means no card draw or ramp without specific staples, leading to potential card disadvantage
Heavily commander-dependent—remove Mavinda and the engine stalls
The tax means non-creature-targeting spells are essentially uncastable from the yard
Vulnerable to a single removal spell or wrath blowing out an over-committed voltron threat
Slow ceiling compared to combo decks; struggles to close fast multiplayer games
Flexible removal that Mavinda can recur by targeting your own creature for the elk token when needed.
Lean into the Aura/Equipment package with Sram and card-advantage pieces like Welcoming Vampire or Esper Sentinel to fight mono-white's draw problem. Add resilience with Shielded by Faith, Indestructibility, and Flickerwisp-style protection, plus efficient removal you can rebuy. To raise power, prioritize fast, cheap protective tricks and a tutor or two so Mavinda reliably turns a single early threat into a clock the table can't profitably interact with.
Legendary Creature — Bird Advisor
ability turns instants and sorceries into reusable resources for value and protection.
more to cast this way. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only once each turn. (You still pay the spell's costs. Timing rules for the spell still apply.)