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Lobelia, Defender of Bag End

Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen · {2}{B} · Black commander

When Lobelia enters, look at the top card of each opponent's library and exile those cards face down. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one — • Until end of turn, you may play a card exiled with Lobelia without paying its mana cost. • Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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What Lobelia, Defender of Bag End 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 Lobelia enters, look at the top card of each opponent's library and exile those cards face down.
• Activated ability{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one —

What a Lobelia, Defender of Bag End deck needs

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

• artifacts to sacrifice — Treasures and Food (each plays an exiled card free or drains 2)

The Lobelia, Defender of Bag End deck plan

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

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 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
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 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

Best cards for Lobelia, Defender of Bag End

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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