Lena, Selfless Champion is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
When Lena enters, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each nontoken creature you control. Sacrifice Lena: Creatures you control with power less than Lena's power gain indestructible until end of turn.
How it works : Lena, Selfless Champion
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The number of nontoken creatures you control is counted only as Lena's first ability resolves. If Lena is still on the battlefield (and not somehow a token), it will count itself.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
To determine which creatures gain indestructible while resolving Lena's last ability, use Lena's power as it last existed on the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Lena's last ability affects only creatures you control with the appropriate power at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won't gain indestructible, and a creature you control whose power increases later in the turn won't lose indestructible.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Vizier of Remedies + Lena, Selfless Champion
Infinite creature tokensInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite death triggers
- 1Activate Lena by sacrificing it.
- 2When Lena dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter on it due to Vizier of Remedies.
- 3Resolve the Lena ability.
- 4Repeat.
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#2
Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Lena, Selfless Champion
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Lena, adding
. - 2Lena dies, triggering Nim Deathmantle, causing you to pay
to return Lena from your graveyard to the battlefield, and attach Nim Deathmantle to it. - 3Lena enters the battlefield, creating at least two 1/1 Soldier creature tokens.
- 4Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a Soldier, adding .
- 5Repeat.
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#3
Eldrazi Displacer + Ashnod's Altar + Lena, Selfless Champion
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Activate Eldrazi Displacer by paying
, blinking Lena. - 2When Lena enters, it triggers, creating at least two creature tokens.
- 3Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing two creature tokens, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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#4
Solemnity + Luminous Broodmoth + Lena, Selfless Champion
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Activate Lena by sacrificing it.
- 2When Lena dies, Luminous Broodmoth triggers, returning Lena from your graveyard to the battlefield without a flying counter on it due to Solemnity.
- 3Resolve the Lena ability.
- 4Repeat.
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#5
Lena, Selfless Champion + Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar
Infinite colored manaInfinite creature tokensInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETB
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Lena, adding
. - 2Lena dies, triggering Nim Deathmantle, causing you to pay to return Lena from your graveyard to the battlefield, and attach Nim Deathmantle to it.
- 3Lena enters the battlefield, creating at least four 1/1 Soldier creature tokens.
- 4Activate Phyrexian Altar three times by sacrificing three Soldiers, adding
. - 5Repeat.
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#6
Kenrith, the Returned King + Relic of Legends + Agatha of the Vile Cauldron + Lena, Selfless Champion
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite death triggersInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Kenrith's fifth ability by paying
due to Agatha, returning Lena from your graveyard to the battlefield. - 2Activate Relic of Legends' second ability by tapping Lena, adding .
- 3Activate Lena by sacrificing it.
- 4Repeat.
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#7
Whisper, Blood Liturgist + Lena, Selfless Champion + Intruder Alarm
Infinite creature tokensInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Lena by sacrificing it, causing creatures you control with power less than Lena's power to gain indestructible until end of turn.
- 2Activate Whisper by tapping it and sacrificing two other creatures, returning Lena from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 3Lena enters the battlefield, triggering itself and Intruder Alarm.
- 4Resolve the Lena trigger, creating at least three 1/1 Soldier creature tokens.
- 5Resolve the Intruder Alarm trigger, untapping all creatures.
- 6Repeat.
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#8
Whisper, Blood Liturgist + Lena, Selfless Champion + Thornbite Staff
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature tokensInfinite death triggers
- 1Activate Lena by sacrificing it.
- 2Lena dies, triggering Whisper, untapping Whisper.
- 3Resolve the Lena ability, causing creatures you control with power less than Lena's power to gain indestructible until end of turn.
- 4Activate Whisper by tapping it and sacrificing two other creatures.
- 5The creatures die, triggering Whisper twice, untapping Whisper.
- 6Resolve the Whisper ability from step 4, returning Lena from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 7Lena enters the battlefield, creating at least three 1/1 Soldier creature tokens.
- 8Repeat.
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Legal formats
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