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Lulu, Stern Guardian

Lulu, Stern Guardian

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {2}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever an opponent attacks you, choose target creature attacking you. Put a stun counter on that creature. {3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
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What Lulu, Stern Guardian actually does

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What a Lulu, Stern Guardian deck wants

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Best cards for Lulu, Stern Guardian

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.

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

  1. Thrummingbird2 mana
  2. Dreamtide Whale3 mana
  3. Flux Channeler3 mana
  4. Vexing Radgull2 mana
  5. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  6. Lulu, Stern Guardian3 mana
  7. Surge Conductor3 mana
  8. Guildpact Informant3 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. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  5. Contentious Plan2 mana
  6. Experimental Augury2 mana
  7. Tezzeret's Gambit4 mana
  8. Dreamtide Whale3 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  3. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  4. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Spawnbed Protector7 mana

Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Thrummingbird2 mana
  3. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  4. Dreamtide Whale3 mana
  5. Flux Channeler3 mana
  6. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  7. Staff of Compleation3 mana
  8. Sword of Truth and Justice3 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. Suspend1 mana
  6. Snap2 mana
  7. Into the Flood Maw1 mana
  8. Planar Incision2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Displacement Wave2 mana
  2. Filter Out3 mana
  3. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  4. Coercive Portal4 mana
  5. Whelming Wave4 mana
  6. Consuming Tide4 mana
  7. Llawan, Cephalid Empress4 mana
  8. Part the Veil4 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. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Personal Tutor1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Rhystic Study3 mana
  6. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Combat Research1 mana

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