# Helga, Skittish Seer (Commander)

- Format: Commander, 100 cards, commander Helga, Skittish Seer (BLB 217).
- Colors: green, white and blue (Bant).
- List: [blb-helga-frogs.csv](blb-helga-frogs.csv).
- Guide (Spanish): [guide_blb-helga-frogs.html](guide_blb-helga-frogs.html).
- Composition: 1 commander, 63 other nonland cards, 36 lands (13 nonbasic,
  9 Forest, 8 Island, 6 Plains).
- Base precon: an evolution of [Hare Raising](../../../precons/standard/hare-raising/README.md),
  so it may use that precon's cards plus any booster pull.
- Sources: of the 63 nonland cards, 37 come from the Bloomburrow pulls,
  4 from Hare Raising (Byrke, Long Ear of the Law, Fecund Greenshell, Rabid
  Bite, Repel Calamity) and 22 from the MKM, FRA, TLA, FDN Beginner Box, MSH,
  SPM and HOB pulls, mostly creatures with mana value 4+ or {X}. Lands come
  from the BLB, SPM, TLA and HOB pulls; basics are the FDN Beginner Box
  printings.
- Status: proposal, not a record of cards removed from available inventory.
  Single copies shared with other decks: Season of Weaving, Kitnap and Long
  River's Pull (Alania), Flickering Hound (Jace). Byrke and Fecund Greenshell
  are shared with [Rabbits G/W](../../standard/blb-rabbits-gw/README.md),
  the other Hare Raising upgrade, and Repel Calamity and Rabid Bite with its
  sideboard.
- Friend priority: Dawn's Truce and Starfall Invocation went to the friend's
  Zoraline, and the pulled Repel Calamity too. Spectacular Tactics replaces
  Dawn's Truce (hexproof plus a +1/+1 counter, so Helga also makes more mana)
  and No Witnesses replaces Starfall Invocation as the wrath.
- Hare Raising pass: Seedpod Squire, Rust-Shield Rampager, Treetop Sentries,
  Fountainport Bell, Pearl of Wisdom and Peerless Recycling made room for
  Fecund Greenshell (land or card whenever a high-toughness creature enters),
  Byrke (doubles Helga's counters when she attacks), Rabid Bite, Boughside
  Wanderers, H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit and Damage Control Crew (returns a
  4+ card from the graveyard). Five of the six new cards trigger Helga.
- November Hobbit pulls: Bard's Company (4-drop, +1/+1 to the team and recruit
  on enter or attack) replaces Giant-Sized Flying Ant, and The Eagles Are
  Coming! replaces Icewind Elemental. Kicked, it returns any number of your
  creatures to hand to recast with Helga and leaves a 4/4 flier for each.

## Game plan

1. Helga draws a card, gains 1 life and grows every time you cast a creature
   spell with mana value 4 or more. Her tap ability adds mana equal to her
   power for those creatures (or creatures with {X}), so she ramps herself.
2. 32 creatures trigger her: BLB 4-drops with enter effects (Driftgloom
   Coyote, Hivespine Wolverine, Skyskipper Duo), Hare Raising's Byrke and
   Fecund Greenshell, plus big creatures from other pulls (Ezrim, Tolsimir,
   Hotshot Investigators, Boughside Wanderers, Bard's Company, Guiding Hydra).
3. The Frogs recycle them: Mistbreath Elder, Stickytongue Sentinel and Dour
   Port-Mage return a creature to hand so it can be cast again (another Helga
   trigger and another enter effect). Dour Port-Mage and Three Tree Scribe
   pay you each time a creature leaves without dying.
4. Interaction stays cheap: Banishing Light, Parting Gust, Repel Calamity,
   Rabid Bite, Pawpatch Formation, counterspells and Season of Weaving as the
   reset.