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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 needs
Plays as stax. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- stax pieces, taxes and hatebears that break parity in your favor
- punisher pieces that make opponents' own actions cost them
The Lavinia, Azorius Renegade deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 18× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 13× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 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 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
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Ghostly Prison3 mana
- Propaganda3 mana
- Blind Obedience2 mana
- Drannith Magistrate2 mana
- Deafening Silence1 mana
- Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
- Narset, Parter of Veils3 mana
Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- Ledger Shredder2 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
- Generous Gift3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lavinia, Azorius Renegade is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Lavinia, Azorius Renegade + Knowledge Pool5,497 decks
- Lavinia, Azorius Renegade + Omen Machine2,812 decks
- Lavinia, Azorius Renegade + Eye Of The Storm465 decks
- Lavinia, Azorius Renegade + Possibility Storm449 decks