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Licia, Sanguine Tribune

Legendary Creature — Vampire Soldier · {5}{R}{W}{B} · Black/Red/White commander

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each 1 life you gained this turn. First strike, lifelink Pay 5 life: Put three +1/+1 counters on Licia. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.

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What Licia, Sanguine Tribune actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated abilityPay 5 life: Put three +1/+1 counters on Licia. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.
• Keyword · first strikefirst strike
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink

What a Licia, Sanguine Tribune deck needs

Plays as lifegain. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• repeatable lifegain — lifelink, gain-life triggers and Food (every life gained is its trigger)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)

The Licia, Sanguine Tribune deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 29× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
• 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 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 Licia, Sanguine Tribune

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.

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