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Lydia Frye

Lydia Frye

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin · {2}{U/B} · Black/Blue commander

Lydia Frye can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. At the beginning of your end step, surveil X, where X is the number of tapped Assassins you control. (Look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
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What Lydia Frye actually does

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What a Lydia Frye deck wants

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

Best cards for Lydia Frye

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. Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
  2. Dawnhand Dissident1 mana
  3. Faerie Dreamthief1 mana
  4. Snarling Gorehound1 mana
  5. Barrier of Bones1 mana
  6. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History1 mana
  7. Desmond Miles2 mana
  8. Dogged Detective2 mana

A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

  1. Valley Rotcaller2 mana
  2. Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel3 mana
  3. Weathered Sentinels3 mana
  4. Bloodsoaked Champion1 mana
  5. Rev, Tithe Extractor4 mana
  6. Twenty-Toed Toad4 mana
  7. Grimgrin, Corpse-Born // Grimgrin, Corpse-Born0 mana
  8. Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Iridescent Vinelasher1 mana
  2. Basim Ibn Ishaq2 mana
  3. Assassin Initiate1 mana
  4. Bile-Vial Boggart1 mana
  5. Guul Draz Assassin1 mana
  6. Hired Poisoner1 mana
  7. Hookblade Veteran1 mana
  8. Hullcarver1 mana

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

  1. Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains3 mana
  2. Rooftop Bypass3 mana
  3. Unstoppable Slasher3 mana
  4. Bile-Vial Boggart1 mana
  5. Massacre Girl5 mana
  6. Vein Ripper6 mana
  7. Aven Heartstabber2 mana
  8. Guildsworn Prowler2 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. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Suspend1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Displacement Wave2 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  8. Forced March3 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. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

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