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Liesa, Shroud of Dusk

Liesa, Shroud of Dusk

Legendary Creature — Angel · {2}{W}{W}{B} · Black/White commander

Rather than pay {2} for each previous time you've cast this spell from the command zone this game, pay 2 life that many times. Flying, lifelink Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 2 life.
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What Liesa, Shroud of Dusk actually does

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

What a Liesa, Shroud of Dusk deck needs

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

The Liesa, Shroud of Dusk deck plan

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

Best cards for Liesa, Shroud of Dusk

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.

Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  4. Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
  5. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  6. Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff2 mana
  7. Mindcrank2 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Akroma's Will4 mana
  2. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  3. Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
  4. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  5. The Wind Crystal4 mana
  6. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  7. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  8. Predators' Hour2 mana

A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break

  1. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  2. Ghostly Prison3 mana
  3. Blind Obedience2 mana
  4. Drannith Magistrate2 mana
  5. Deafening Silence1 mana
  6. Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
  7. Opposition Agent3 mana
  8. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  6. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Bitter Triumph2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Wrath of God4 mana
  6. Day of Judgment4 mana
  7. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  8. Kaya's Wrath4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

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