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Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
Legendary Creature — Gith Warrior · {2}{W} · White commander
If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
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What Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · counter_doublerIf you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
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What a Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion deck needs
Plays as counters engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- counter producers and proliferate (every counter placed is multiplied)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
The Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 25× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 16× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
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.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
- Generous Pup2 mana
- Martyr for the Cause2 mana
- Cenn's Tactician1 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Patrolling Peacemaker3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
- Throne of Geth2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
- You Cannot Pass!1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
- Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
- Search for Glory3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Mentor of the Meek3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Jace, Cunning Castaway + Oath Of Teferi1,407 decks
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Ichormoon Gauntlet + Jace, Cunning Castaway1,339 decks
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Jace, Cunning Castaway + The Chain Veil1,200 decks
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Gatta And Luzzu + Walking Ballista957 decks
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Jace, Cunning Castaway + Oath Of Gideon766 decks
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Automated Assembly Line + Gonti's Aether Heart702 decks