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Depala, Pilot Exemplar
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Depala, Pilot Exemplar

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Pilot
1RW
· WR
Other Dwarves you control get +1/+1. Each Vehicle you control gets +1/+1 as long as it's a creature. Whenever Depala becomes tapped, you may pay {X}. If you do, reveal the top X cards of your library, put all Dwarf and Vehicle cards from among them into your hand, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Budget
Filters
36 lands · total $98.36 budget: $100
W 19 R 19 C 5
Composition 20 Basics 6 Other Nonbasic 4 Fetch Lands 1 Bond Lands 1 Check Lands 1 Filter Lands 1 Horizon Lands 1 Pain Lands 1 Shock Lands

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Depala, Pilot Exemplar yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$4.15 6

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$94.21 10

Basics

$1.50 20

About This Manabase

Depala, Pilot Exemplar is a WR commander with a WR color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Depala, Pilot Exemplar, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Path of Ancestry , and others when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Sacred Foundry, Windswept Heath, Flooded Strand, Bloodstained Mire , plus 6 more for Depala, Pilot Exemplar's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.