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Lutri, the Spellchaser

Legendary Creature — Elemental Otter · {1}{U/R}{U/R} · Red/Blue commander

Companion — Each nonland card in your starting deck has a different name. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Flash When Lutri enters, if you cast it, copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

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What Lutri, the Spellchaser 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 Lutri enters, if you cast it, copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
• Keyword · companioncompanion
• Keyword · flashflash
• AbilityCompanion — Each nonland card in your starting deck has a different name.

What a Lutri, the Spellchaser deck needs

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

• ways to return the commander to your hand and recast it (its enter trigger fires only when it was cast — blink does nothing)
• cheap instants and sorceries (every one you cast feeds it)
• instants, sorceries and artifact spells worth copying (it copies your spells)

The Lutri, the Spellchaser deck plan

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

• 29× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Lutri, the Spellchaser

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.

Combos with Lutri, the Spellchaser

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lutri, the Spellchaser is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Lutri, the Spellchaser + Baral's Expertise576 decks
• Lutri, the Spellchaser + Release To The Wind324 decks
• Lutri, the Spellchaser + Whirlwind Technique + Semblance Anvil5 decks
• Lutri, the Spellchaser + Whirlwind Technique + Temur Battlecrier4 decks
• Lutri, the Spellchaser + Aluren + Snap3 decks
• Lutri, the Spellchaser + Whirlwind Technique + Urza's Incubator1 decks

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