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Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist

Legendary Creature — Elf Druid · {B/G}{B/G} · Black/Green commander

When Lluwen enters, mill four cards, then you may put a creature or land card from among the milled cards on top of your library. {2}{B/G}{B/G}{B/G}, {T}, Discard a land card: Create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token for each land card in your graveyard.

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What Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist 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 · etbWhen Lluwen enters, mill four cards, then you may put a creature or land card from among the milled cards on top of your library.
• Activated ability{2}{B/G}{B/G}{B/G}, {T}, Discard a land card: Create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token for each land card in your graveyard.

What a Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist deck plan

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

• 16× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

Best cards for Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist

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.

Combos with Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff + Dakmor Salvage + Fecundity1 decks
• Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff + Dakmor Salvage + Doom Weaver
• Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff + Dakmor Salvage + Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff + Dakmor Salvage + Smothering Abomination
• Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff + Dakmor Salvage + Weatherlight Compleated
• Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff + Dakmor Salvage + Dragon Appeasement

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