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Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue · {W}{B} · Black/White commander

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

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What Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff 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 · cast_spellWhenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

What a Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff deck needs

Plays as treasure engine — cheap spells. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• cheap spells so you cast two a turn (opponents' second spells count too)
• treasure and artifact-count payoffs
• life-loss mitigation (each trigger costs 1 life)

The Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff deck plan

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

• 24× A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger
• 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

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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