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Iroh, Grand Lotus

Iroh, Grand Lotus

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally · {3}{G}{U}{R} · Green/Red/Blue commander

Firebending 2 During your turn, each non-Lesson instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast a card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) During your turn, each Lesson card in your graveyard has flashback {1}.
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What Iroh, Grand Lotus actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What an Iroh, Grand Lotus deck needs

Plays as spellslinger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Iroh, Grand Lotus deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Iroh, Grand Lotus

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.

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  3. Brainstorm1 mana
  4. Crop Rotation1 mana
  5. Faithless Looting1 mana
  6. Gamble1 mana
  7. Lightning Bolt1 mana
  8. Mystical Tutor1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  2. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  3. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  4. Six3 mana
  5. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
  6. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  7. Grapple with the Past2 mana
  8. Millikin2 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Crush1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. Reshape2 mana
  6. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  7. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  8. Long-Term Plans3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Desynchronization4 mana
  5. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  6. Whelming Wave4 mana
  7. Consuming Tide4 mana
  8. Oversimplify5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Curiosity1 mana
  6. Wizard Class1 mana
  7. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  8. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  4. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Asceticism5 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Izzet Signet2 mana
  3. Gruul Signet2 mana
  4. Incubation Druid2 mana
  5. Simic Signet2 mana
  6. Palladium Myr3 mana
  7. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  8. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana

Combos with Iroh, Grand Lotus

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Iroh, Grand Lotus is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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