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Willie Lumpkin, Postman
Legendary Creature — Human Citizen · {W}{U} · Blue/White commander
Willie Lumpkin can't be blocked.
Whenever Willie Lumpkin deals combat damage to an opponent, you draw a card and that player may draw a card. If they do, that player can't attack you or permanents you control during their next turn.
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What Willie Lumpkin, Postman 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 · deals_damageWhenever Willie Lumpkin deals combat damage to an opponent, you draw a card and that player may draw a card. If they do, that player can't attack you or permanents you control during their next turn.
- Static ability · evasion_grantWillie Lumpkin can't be blocked.
What a Willie Lumpkin, Postman deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 11× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 13× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- 15× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Willie Lumpkin, Postman
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.
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
- Galerider Sliver1 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Favorable Winds2 mana
- Skycat Sovereign2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Colossus Hammer1 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
- Guide of Souls1 mana
- Adeline, Resplendent Cathar3 mana
- Ainok Strike Leader2 mana
- Jacked Rabbit2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Mangara, the Diplomat4 mana
- Weathered Sentinels3 mana
- Battle Angels of Tyr4 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Chasm Skulker3 mana
- Crawling Chorus1 mana
- Doomed Traveler1 mana
- Hunted Witness1 mana
- Summon the School4 mana
- Urza's Saga0 mana
- Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Suspend1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Final Showdown1 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Martyr's Cry2 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Cathedral Membrane2 mana
- Citywide Bust3 mana
- Displacement Wave2 mana
- Harsh Mercy3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- Counterspell2 mana
- Three Steps Ahead1 mana
- Long River's Pull2 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Abjure1 mana
- Archmage's Charm3 mana
- Cancel3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Greater Auramancy2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana