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Lo and Li, Royal Advisors

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · {2}{B}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Whenever an opponent discards a card or mills one or more cards, put a +1/+1 counter on each Advisor you control. {2}{U/B}: Target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

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What Lo and Li, Royal Advisors 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 · discardWhenever an opponent discards a card or mills one or more cards, put a +1/+1 counter on each Advisor you control.
• Activated ability{2}{U/B}: Target player mills four cards.

What a Lo and Li, Royal Advisors deck needs

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

• opponent-mill spells and permanents, and mill payoffs (their library is the win)
• cards that make opponents discard (its payoff is their discards)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• advisor creatures (its text counts them)

The Lo and Li, Royal Advisors deck plan

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

• 18× Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
• 10× Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 14× 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Lo and Li, Royal Advisors

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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