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Elder Owyn Lyons

Elder Owyn Lyons

Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Artifacts you control have ward {1}. (Whenever an artifact you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) When Elder Owyn Lyons enters or dies, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
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What Elder Owyn Lyons actually does

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What an Elder Owyn Lyons deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Elder Owyn Lyons

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  3. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  4. Soulherder3 mana
  5. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  6. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  7. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  8. Brago, King Eternal4 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  3. Azorius Chancery0 mana
  4. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  5. Lotus Field0 mana
  6. Meticulous Archive0 mana
  7. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  8. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. High Market0 mana
  2. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  3. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
  4. Ulamog's Dreadsire10 mana
  5. Stitcher's Apprentice2 mana
  6. Volrath's Curse2 mana
  7. Marjhan7 mana
  8. Altar of Dementia2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Brain Freeze2 mana
  3. Mindcrank2 mana
  4. Codex Shredder1 mana
  5. Hedron Crab1 mana
  6. Thought Scour1 mana
  7. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Displacement Wave2 mana
  8. Harsh Mercy3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Transmute Artifact2 mana
  5. Open the Armory2 mana
  6. Whir of Invention3 mana
  7. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  8. Enlightened Tutor1 mana

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