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Danitha, New Benalia's Light

Danitha, New Benalia's Light

Legendary Creature — Human Knight

Danitha wants a deck that fills its discard pile and plays cards back out of it. It also suits a deck that brings big creatures back from the discard pile.

  • Mana cost1 genericgreenwhite
  • White, Green ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 2
  • RarityRare

Vigilance, trample, lifelink

Once during each of your turns, you may cast an Aura or Equipment spell from your graveyard.

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Cards That Fit Danitha, New Benalia's Light

Picked for what they do in Danitha's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Danitha's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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The 6 Cards

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The 6 Cards

Rulings for Danitha, New Benalia's Light

explain how Danitha works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 12 May 2023

If an Aura or Equipment card is put into your graveyard during your main phase and the stack is empty, you have a chance to cast it before any player may attempt to remove that card from your graveyard.

Wizards of the Coast 12 May 2023

If you cast a spell from your graveyard using another permission, Danitha's effect doesn't apply. You can cast another Aura or Equipment spell from your graveyard.

Wizards of the Coast 12 May 2023

If you cast one Aura or Equipment spell from your graveyard and then have a new Danitha come under your control in the same turn, you may cast another Aura or Equipment spell from your graveyard that turn.

Wizards of the Coast 12 May 2023

Once you begin to cast the spell, losing control of Danitha won't affect the spell.

Wizards of the Coast 12 May 2023

You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spell you cast from your graveyard.

Wizards of the Coast 12 May 2023

You must pay the costs to cast that spell. If it has an alternative cost, you may cast it for that cost instead.

6 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Danitha, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryWGPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, G for green.Graveyard/Self-MillGraveyard decks fill their own graveyard on purpose, then play cards from it as if it were a second hand. Moving cards from the top of your own deck straight into the graveyard is called self-mill.Open the Graveyard/Self-Mill pageCast from GraveyardLets you cast spells or play lands straight from your graveyard, so the graveyard becomes a second hand. This is different from Reanimation, which puts a creature card onto the battlefield without casting it. Karador, Ghost Chieftain, Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Yawgmoth's WillOpen the Cast from Graveyard pageRecursionBrings cards back from the graveyard: to your hand, to the battlefield, or letting them be cast again from where they lie. Eternal Witness, Reanimate, VictimizeOpen the Recursion pageLife GainGains you life, once or over and over. Soul Warden, The Great Henge. In Commander life is something to spend, not just a cushion, and many of these cards also set off others that reward gaining life.Open the Life Gain pageReanimatorReanimator decks put big creatures into their own graveyard early, then bring them back onto the battlefield without paying their cost. It gets a huge creature into play far sooner than you could afford to cast it.Open the Reanimator page