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Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
Legendary Creature — Elf Druid // Sorcery · {2}{B}{G} // {B/G} · Black/Green commander
Lluwen enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Lluwen becomes prepared. Activate only as a sorcery.
Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
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What Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated abilityExile a creature card from your graveyard: Lluwen becomes prepared. Activate only as a sorcery.
- AbilityLluwen enters prepared.
- AbilityCreate a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
What a Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creature cards in your graveyard to exile (each re-prepares it for another Pest)
- self-mill
- token payoffs
The Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 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 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
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.
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Rampant Frogantua3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Finale of Devastation2 mana
- Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
- Elvish Archdruid3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
- Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
- Sylvan Anthem2 mana
- Weaver of Harmony2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Vicious Rivalry4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Joraga Treespeaker1 mana