
Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat
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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Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Team Tactics
- Ticked Off
- Emeritus of Conflict
- Naktamun Lorespinner
- Trumpet Blast
- Smelt
- Firespitter Whelp
- Ganax, Astral Hunter
- Lightning Strike
- Blazing Crescendo
- Temur Battle Rage
- Fiery Inscription
- Fists of Flame
- Young Pyromancer
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Scorchmark
- Fever Charm
- Molten Rebuke
- Let the Galaxy Burn
- Dark Apostle
- Lavaleaper
- Wildfire Eternal
- Magma Spray
- Battle-Rattle Shaman
- Pedal to the Metal
- Burning Prophet
- Reroute
- Thrumming Stone
- Burn Bright
- Critical Hit
- Soul-Scar Mage
- Blood Mist
- Dwarven Reinforcements
- Break Through the Line
- Blaze
- Uncaged Fury
- Strangle
- Boarding Party
- Volcanic Torrent
- Fiery Annihilation
- Dragon's Approach
- Manaform Hellkite
- Rob the Archives
- Aurora Phoenix
- Sin Prodder
- Ardent Elementalist
- Rionya, Fire Dancer
- Sure Strike
- Goblin Oriflamme
- Faithless Salvaging
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Mountain
- Team Tactics
- Sol Ring
- Ruby Medallion
- Arcane Signet
- Big Score
- Emeritus of Conflict
- Chaos Warp
- Unexpected Windfall
- Ticked Off
- Faithless Looting
- Seething Song
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Naktamun Lorespinner
- Ganax, Astral Hunter
- Fiery Inscription
- Thrill of Possibility
- Blazing Crescendo
- Lightning Strike
- Fists of Flame
- Lightning Bolt
- Temur Battle Rage
- Trumpet Blast
- Smelt
- Jeska's Will
- Guttersnipe
- Firespitter Whelp
- Cathartic Reunion
- Blasphemous Act
- Young Pyromancer
- Mana Geyser
- Mind Stone
- Lavaleaper
- Rapacious Dragon
- Wild-Magic Sorcerer
- Bonehoard Dracosaur
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen
- Dark Apostle
- Ardent Elementalist
- Boarding Party
- Rionya, Fire Dancer
- Burning Prophet
- Sin Prodder
- Aurora Phoenix
- Electrostatic Field
- Wildfire Eternal
- Birgi, God of Storytelling
- Manaform Hellkite
- Wild Magic Surge
- Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
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
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.