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.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (17)

Headers13 on

9 months ago

Cheap creatures with deathtouch:

Acidic Slime Ambush Viper Deathbloom Gardener Fang of Shigeki Gnarlwood Dryad Gorgon Flail Greater Basilisk Heir of the Wilds Ichorspit Basilisk Kessig Recluse Mirkwood Spider Moss Viper Narnam Renegade Oakhame Adversary Skullwinder Tajuru Blightblade Thornweald Archer Turntimber Basilisk Underdark Basilisk

Creatures with infect/toxic

Blight Mamba Core Prowler Corpse Cur Cystbearer Ichorclaw Myr Paladin of Predation Plague Myr Rot Wolf Spinebiter Tyrranax Atrocity Venomous Brutalizer Viridian Corrupter Carrion Call

Proliferate:

Adaptive Sporesinger Cankerbloom Carnivorous Canopy Copper Longlegs Courage in Crisis Evolution Sage Expand the Sphere Smell Fear Thirsting Roots Unnatural Restoration Urban Daggertooth

Equipment:

Grafted Exoskeleton Prosthetic Injector Swiftfoot Boots Fireshrieker Bladed Pinions Chariot of Victory Jousting Lance No-Dachi Peregrine Mask Sharpened Pitchfork Surestrike Trident Viridian Claw Livewire Lash Pathway Arrows Rogue's Gloves Sorcerer's Wand Thornbite Staff Viridian Longbow*

Instant kill:

Aggressive Instinct Ambuscade Animist's Might Bite Down Clear Shot Cosmic Hunger Devouring Tendrils Halana, Kessig Ranger Infectious Bite Nature's Way Rabid Bite Spinning Wheel Kick

Unblockable:

Access Tunnel Rogue's Passage Executioner's Hood Prowler's Helm Skeleton Key Wedding Invitation Whispersilk Cloak

Acidarc on Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

11 months ago

Thornbite Staff

Hooded Blightfang

Halana, Kessig Ranger

Thornbite is another pinger but even better since you can uptap when a creature dies.
Hooded Blightfang makes attacking with all your deathtouch creatures really hurt. I think Halana fits here if it can be stacked so that the creature gets deathtouch first then it does its damage to another creature.

MattyOfTheBoy on Kool-Aid Man if He Knew Mitosis

1 year ago

Abres_Tenelles Thank you much! I'll definitely put Halana, Kessig Ranger in and I'll put Alena, Kessig Trapper in the maybeboard!

Abres_Tenelles on Kool-Aid Man if He Knew Mitosis

1 year ago

Love the list! considering how easily you make 5/5s, perhaps Alena, Kessig Trapper, or Halana, Kessig Ranger would be fun additions?

TheVectornaut on This is art, cherí!

1 year ago

There's something about the hilarious flavor fail of not choosing the Archery mode on Choose Your Weapon in order to win using an archery deck that I just love. I think it's worth noting that, aside from Halana, Kessig Ranger, all of your archers are elves. It might be worth cutting her for another elf option. Doing so both improves the consistency of Jagged-Scar Archers and avoids the nonbo with Wildborn Preserver, although I don't see Preserver being that impactful either way. Halana does let you win without the admittedly janky flying-granting cards, so I do see the appeal, even if the 2 mana requirement might be tough to meet. For some of the weaker archers, I'd rather just have some ways to spam elf tokens to get Jagged-Scar online faster. Maybe something like Gilt-Leaf Ambush, Dwynen's Elite, Imperious Perfect, or even Sylvan Offering since this is casual. If you don't want to run any non-archers for flavor reasons though, I totally understand. Some cards that could be interesting are copiers like Panharmonicon and Strionic Resonator since this deck has a ton of triggered abilities.

legendofa on Ray Fe Laz, Scorpion Trainer

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years 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.