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Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat
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Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat

{2}{R}

Legendary Creature — Dragon Shaman

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that spell's mana value.

Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Her hunger for power consumes what the fire cannot.

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Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB #188)
Rarity
Uncommon
Mana value
3
Released
2022-06-10
Artist
Ioannis Fiore
EDHREC rank
#9,395
Colour identity
{R}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.00
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Team Tactics 25 %+24.4 %
  2. Temur Battle Rage 29 %+22.6 %
  3. Fists of Flame 29 %+21.7 %
  4. Blood Mist 21 %+20.8 %
  5. Trumpet Blast 21 %+20.7 %
  6. Dragon's Approach 21 %+20.6 %
  7. Manaform Hellkite 21 %+20.5 %
  8. Smelt 21 %+20.5 %
  9. Sure Strike 21 %+20.3 %
  10. Rush of Adrenaline 21 %+20.3 %
  11. Ticked Off 20 %+19.9 %
  12. Brute Strength 21 %+19.4 %
  13. Arcane Bombardment 21 %+19.3 %
  14. Cathartic Reunion 29 %+18.4 %
  15. Firespitter Whelp 21 %+18.4 %
  16. Infuriate 21 %+18.3 %
  17. Lathliss, Dragon Queen 21 %+18.2 %
  18. Emeritus of Conflict 20 %+17.9 %
  19. Naktamun Lorespinner 20 %+17.5 %
  20. Ganax, Astral Hunter 21 %+17.3 %
  21. Sudden Breakthrough 21 %+17.2 %
  22. Bonehoard Dracosaur 21 %+17.1 %
  23. Lightning Strike 21 %+16.7 %
  24. Blazing Crescendo 21 %+16.0 %
  25. Fiery Inscription 21 %+15.5 %
  26. Scorchmark 14 %+14.2 %
  27. Fever Charm 14 %+14.2 %
  28. Molten Rebuke 14 %+14.2 %
  29. Young Pyromancer 21 %+14.1 %
  30. Let the Galaxy Burn 14 %+14.1 %
  31. Dark Apostle 14 %+14.1 %
  32. Wildfire Eternal 14 %+14.0 %
  33. Unleash Fury 21 %+14.0 %
  34. Magma Spray 14 %+13.9 %
  35. Maximize Velocity 14 %+13.9 %
  36. Battle-Rattle Shaman 14 %+13.9 %
  37. Pedal to the Metal 14 %+13.8 %
  38. Burning Prophet 14 %+13.8 %
  39. Thrumming Stone 14 %+13.8 %
  40. Reroute 14 %+13.8 %
  41. Burn Bright 14 %+13.8 %
  42. Critical Hit 14 %+13.7 %
  43. Soul-Scar Mage 14 %+13.7 %
  44. Break Through the Line 14 %+13.6 %
  45. Dwarven Reinforcements 14 %+13.6 %
  46. Borrowed Hostility 14 %+13.6 %
  47. Blaze 14 %+13.6 %
  48. Strangle 14 %+13.6 %
  49. Uncaged Fury 14 %+13.6 %
  50. Sticky Fingers 21 %+13.5 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Mountain 100 %+5.1 %
  2. Ruby Medallion 43 %-14.0 %
  3. Sol Ring 43 %-41.3 %
  4. Chaos Warp 36 %-25.2 %
  5. Arcane Signet 36 %-24.9 %
  6. Storm-Kiln Artist 29 %+12.4 %
  7. Thrill of Possibility 29 %-4.4 %
  8. Big Score 29 %-3.8 %
  9. Seething Song 29 %-3.6 %
  10. Cathartic Reunion 29 %+18.4 %
  11. Faithless Looting 29 %-10.9 %
  12. Unexpected Windfall 29 %+3.2 %
  13. Temur Battle Rage 29 %+22.6 %
  14. Jeska's Will 29 %-6.7 %
  15. Fists of Flame 29 %+21.7 %
  16. Blasphemous Act 29 %-25.2 %
  17. Team Tactics 25 %+24.4 %
  18. Young Pyromancer 21 %+14.1 %
  19. Sticky Fingers 21 %+13.5 %
  20. Fire Diamond 21 %-1.7 %
  21. Arcane Bombardment 21 %+19.3 %
  22. Trumpet Blast 21 %+20.7 %
  23. Ganax, Astral Hunter 21 %+17.3 %
  24. Expedite 21 %+11.0 %
  25. Blood Mist 21 %+20.8 %
  26. Fiery Inscription 21 %+15.5 %
  27. Mind Stone 21 %-8.9 %
  28. Bonehoard Dracosaur 21 %+17.1 %
  29. Dragon's Approach 21 %+20.6 %
  30. Brute Strength 21 %+19.4 %
  31. Smelt 21 %+20.5 %
  32. Lightning Strike 21 %+16.7 %
  33. Tormenting Voice 21 %+12.6 %
  34. Valakut Awakening 21 %+2.6 %
  35. Rush of Adrenaline 21 %+20.3 %
  36. Manaform Hellkite 21 %+20.5 %
  37. Sudden Breakthrough 21 %+17.2 %
  38. Lathliss, Dragon Queen 21 %+18.2 %
  39. Lightning Bolt 21 %-14.6 %
  40. Abrade 21 %-20.9 %
  41. Valakut Awakening 21 %+2.6 %
  42. Infuriate 21 %+18.3 %
  43. Firespitter Whelp 21 %+18.4 %
  44. Sure Strike 21 %+20.3 %
  45. Mana Geyser 21 %-10.5 %
  46. Blazing Crescendo 21 %+16.0 %
  47. Unleash Fury 21 %+14.0 %
  48. Guttersnipe 21 %+7.2 %
  49. Naktamun Lorespinner 20 %+17.5 %
  50. Emeritus of Conflict 20 %+17.9 %

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2022-06-10

    An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.

  • 2022-06-10

    Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.

  • 2022-06-10

    Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.

  • 2022-06-10

    If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.

  • 2022-06-10

    If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.

  • 2022-06-10

    If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.

  • 2022-06-10

    If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.

  • 2022-06-10

    If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.

  • 2022-06-10

    Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).

  • 2022-06-10

    You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.

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