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Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Legendary Creature — Dragon · {4}{R}{R} · Red commander
Flying
Whenever another nontoken Dragon you control enters, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
{1}{R}: Dragons you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
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What Lathliss, Dragon Queen actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever another nontoken Dragon you control enters, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
- Activated ability{1}{R}: Dragons you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Lathliss, Dragon Queen deck needs
Plays as dragon typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- dragon creatures (its text counts them)
The Lathliss, Dragon Queen deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 7× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 28× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 6× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
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.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana
- Frontier Warmonger4 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Shivan Devastator1 mana
- Slumbering Dragon1 mana
- Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw2 mana
- Reckless Barbarian2 mana
- Atsushi, the Blazing Sky4 mana
- Leyline Tyrant4 mana
- Thunderbreak Regent4 mana
- Vengeful Ancestor4 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Patchwork Banner3 mana
- Castle Embereth0 mana
- Great Train Heist1 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Rising of the Day3 mana
- Purphoros, God of the Forge4 mana
- Kavaron, Memorial World0 mana
- Adaptive Automaton3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Dragon's Approach3 mana
- Sarkhan's Triumph3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 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 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lathliss, Dragon Queen is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen + Cloudstone Curio + Dracogenesis744 decks
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen + Rograkh, Son Of Rohgahh + Cloudstone Curio + Maskwood Nexus293 decks
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Cloudstone Curio + Universal Automaton289 decks
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen + Cloudstone Curio + Maskwood Nexus + Crimson Kobolds286 decks
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen + Cloudstone Curio + Maskwood Nexus + Crookshank Kobolds282 decks
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen + Cloudstone Curio + Maskwood Nexus + Kobolds Of Kher Keep274 decks