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Lo and Li, Royal Advisors

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

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What a Lo and Li, Royal Advisors deck wants

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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.

Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on

  1. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
  2. Jace's Archivist3 mana
  3. Hopeless Nightmare1 mana
  4. Rankle, Master of Pranks4 mana
  5. Bandit's Talent2 mana
  6. The Raven Man2 mana
  7. Tourach, Dread Cantor2 mana
  8. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  2. Hedron Crab1 mana
  3. Ruin Crab1 mana
  4. Millikin2 mana
  5. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  6. Excavated Wall1 mana
  7. Exhibition Tidecaller1 mana
  8. Eye Collector1 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Ledger Shredder2 mana
  2. Omen Hawker1 mana
  3. Bruvac the Grandiloquent3 mana
  4. Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam2 mana
  5. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  6. Glistener Seer1 mana
  7. Minister of Inquiries1 mana
  8. Trusted Advisor1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Brain Freeze2 mana
  5. Mindcrank2 mana
  6. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  7. Codex Shredder1 mana
  8. Hedron Crab1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Ripples of Potential2 mana
  3. Thrummingbird2 mana
  4. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  5. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  6. Contentious Plan2 mana
  7. Drown in Ichor2 mana
  8. Experimental Augury2 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Suspend1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Displacement Wave2 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  8. Forced March3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  8. Diabolic Intent2 mana

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