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Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {W}{U} · Blue/White commander
Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
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What Lavinia, Azorius Renegade 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 · cast_spellWhenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
- Static ability · taxEach opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls.
What a Lavinia, Azorius Renegade deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 12× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 8× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
- 8× Get your board back after a wipe
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 8× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
Best cards for Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
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 tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- Grand Abolisher2 mana
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Ghostly Prison3 mana
- Propaganda3 mana
- Arcane Lighthouse0 mana
- Blind Obedience2 mana
- Drannith Magistrate2 mana
Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Boromir, Warden of the Tower3 mana
- Scrawling Crawler3 mana
- Tataru Taru2 mana
- Trouble in Pairs4 mana
- Monologue Tax3 mana
Get your board back after a wipe
- Resurgent Belief0 mana
- Ascend from Avernus3 mana
- Raise the Past4 mana
- Archangel Elspeth4 mana
- Replenish4 mana
- Rally the Ancestors2 mana
- Brilliant Restoration7 mana
- Eiganjo Dynastorian // Replenish3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Soulherder3 mana
- Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Brago, King Eternal4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Greater Auramancy2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
- Azorius Chancery0 mana
- Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
- Lotus Field0 mana
- Meticulous Archive0 mana
- Riveteers Overlook0 mana
- Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- Counterspell2 mana
- Three Steps Ahead1 mana
- Long River's Pull2 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Abjure1 mana
- Archmage's Charm3 mana
- Cancel3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Suspend1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Final Showdown1 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Martyr's Cry2 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Cathedral Membrane2 mana
- Citywide Bust3 mana
- Displacement Wave2 mana
- Harsh Mercy3 mana