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>>516

It's not very good to think of なら/たら/と/etc in terms of English "if"/"when". と can mean either.

家に来るなら sounds to me like "if (you are) going to come (to my house) " more than anything else. Do you have any more specific examples? なら is more like "if x is the case . . ."