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Lobelia, Defender of Bag End

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

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What a Lobelia, Defender of Bag End deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain

  1. Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
  2. Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
  3. Blightsteel Colossus12 mana
  4. Darksteel Colossus11 mana
  5. Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
  6. Emrakul, the World Anew12 mana
  7. Flayer of Loyalties10 mana
  8. Funeral Room // Awakening Hall11 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  2. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Genji Glove5 mana
  6. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  7. Tiller Engine2 mana
  8. Sword of the Paruns4 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana

Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably

  1. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  2. Leechridden Swamp0 mana
  3. Marionette Apprentice2 mana
  4. The Meathook Massacre2 mana
  5. Mirkwood Bats4 mana
  6. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
  7. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
  8. Bontu's Monument3 mana

Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander

  1. Ugin's Labyrinth0 mana
  2. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
  3. Endless Sands0 mana
  4. Mimic Vat3 mana
  5. Bag of Holding1 mana
  6. Currency Converter1 mana
  7. Dawnhand Dissident1 mana
  8. Dino DNA1 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  2. Skeleton Crew4 mana
  3. "Lifetime" Pass Holder1 mana
  4. Death Tyrant5 mana
  5. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
  6. Infestation Sage1 mana
  7. Nested Shambler1 mana
  8. Nurgle's Rot1 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  4. Lotus Field0 mana
  5. Mortuary Mire0 mana
  6. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  7. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  8. Witch's Cottage0 mana

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

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

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