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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

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What an Iroh, Grand Lotus deck wants

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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.

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Fire Nation Palace0 mana
  2. Firebending Student2 mana
  3. Zuko, Firebending Master2 mana
  4. Fire Sages2 mana
  5. Sozin's Comet5 mana
  6. Jeong Jeong, the Deserter3 mana
  7. Uncle Iroh3 mana
  8. The Legend of Roku // Avatar Roku4 mana

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. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  3. Brain Freeze2 mana
  4. Mindcrank2 mana
  5. Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
  6. Codex Shredder1 mana
  7. Hedron Crab1 mana
  8. Smuggler's Surprise1 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. Suspend1 mana
  7. Snap2 mana
  8. Into the Flood Maw1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Displacement Wave2 mana
  3. Breaking Point3 mana
  4. Crack the Earth1 mana
  5. Simplify1 mana
  6. Filter Out3 mana
  7. Kozilek's Return3 mana
  8. Akki Blizzard-Herder2 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. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  5. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  6. Reshape2 mana
  7. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  8. Mask of the Mimic1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  3. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  4. Cryptothrall4 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  7. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

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