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Lyse Hext

Legendary Creature — Human Rebel Monk · {1}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. As long as you've cast two or more noncreature spells this turn, Lyse Hext has double strike.

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What Lyse Hext actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Static ability · cost_reductionNoncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
• Keyword · prowessprowess
• AbilityAs long as you've cast two or more noncreature spells this turn, Lyse Hext has double strike.

What a Lyse Hext deck needs

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

• cheap, dense noncreature spells (it makes them cheaper)
• cheap instants and sorceries (every one you cast feeds it)

The Lyse Hext deck plan

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

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

Best cards for Lyse Hext

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 Lyse Hext

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lyse Hext is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Lyse Hext + Sensei's Divining Top + The Reality Chip690 decks
• Lyse Hext + Sensei's Divining Top + Mystic Forge523 decks
• Lyse Hext + Sensei's Divining Top + Elsha Of The Infinite492 decks
• Lyse Hext + Sensei's Divining Top + Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass324 decks
• Lyse Hext + Displacer Kitten + The One Ring + Sensei's Divining Top230 decks
• Lyse Hext + Sensei's Divining Top + Future Sight102 decks

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