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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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Choose a background
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB #188)
Rarity
Uncommon
Mana value
3
Released
2022-06-10
Artist
Ioannis Fiore
EDHREC rank
#9,261
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 0.36
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 50 %+49.3 %
  2. Ticked Off 33 %+33.3 %
  3. Emeritus of Conflict 33 %+31.1 %
  4. Naktamun Lorespinner 33 %+30.9 %
  5. Trumpet Blast 25 %+24.3 %
  6. Smelt 25 %+24.0 %
  7. Firespitter Whelp 25 %+22.2 %
  8. Ganax, Astral Hunter 25 %+21.2 %
  9. Lightning Strike 25 %+20.3 %
  10. Blazing Crescendo 25 %+19.6 %
  11. Temur Battle Rage 25 %+19.0 %
  12. Fiery Inscription 25 %+18.9 %
  13. Fists of Flame 25 %+18.1 %
  14. Young Pyromancer 25 %+17.6 %
  15. Storm-Kiln Artist 33 %+17.2 %
  16. Scorchmark 17 %+16.6 %
  17. Fever Charm 17 %+16.6 %
  18. Molten Rebuke 17 %+16.6 %
  19. Let the Galaxy Burn 17 %+16.4 %
  20. Dark Apostle 17 %+16.4 %
  21. Lavaleaper 20 %+16.4 %
  22. Wildfire Eternal 17 %+16.4 %
  23. Magma Spray 17 %+16.3 %
  24. Battle-Rattle Shaman 17 %+16.2 %
  25. Pedal to the Metal 17 %+16.2 %
  26. Burning Prophet 17 %+16.2 %
  27. Reroute 17 %+16.2 %
  28. Thrumming Stone 17 %+16.2 %
  29. Burn Bright 17 %+16.1 %
  30. Critical Hit 17 %+16.1 %
  31. Soul-Scar Mage 17 %+16.0 %
  32. Blood Mist 17 %+16.0 %
  33. Dwarven Reinforcements 17 %+16.0 %
  34. Break Through the Line 17 %+16.0 %
  35. Blaze 17 %+16.0 %
  36. Uncaged Fury 17 %+15.9 %
  37. Strangle 17 %+15.9 %
  38. Boarding Party 17 %+15.9 %
  39. Volcanic Torrent 17 %+15.8 %
  40. Fiery Annihilation 17 %+15.8 %
  41. Dragon's Approach 17 %+15.8 %
  42. Manaform Hellkite 17 %+15.7 %
  43. Rob the Archives 17 %+15.7 %
  44. Aurora Phoenix 17 %+15.7 %
  45. Sin Prodder 17 %+15.6 %
  46. Ardent Elementalist 17 %+15.6 %
  47. Rionya, Fire Dancer 17 %+15.6 %
  48. Sure Strike 17 %+15.5 %
  49. Goblin Oriflamme 17 %+15.5 %
  50. Faithless Salvaging 17 %+15.5 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Mountain 100 %+5.2 %
  2. Team Tactics 50 %+49.3 %
  3. Sol Ring 50 %-34.2 %
  4. Ruby Medallion 42 %-15.2 %
  5. Arcane Signet 42 %-18.9 %
  6. Big Score 33 %+1.5 %
  7. Emeritus of Conflict 33 %+31.1 %
  8. Chaos Warp 33 %-27.5 %
  9. Unexpected Windfall 33 %+8.5 %
  10. Ticked Off 33 %+33.3 %
  11. Faithless Looting 33 %-6.5 %
  12. Seething Song 33 %+1.3 %
  13. Storm-Kiln Artist 33 %+17.2 %
  14. Naktamun Lorespinner 33 %+30.9 %
  15. Ganax, Astral Hunter 25 %+21.2 %
  16. Fiery Inscription 25 %+18.9 %
  17. Thrill of Possibility 25 %-8.1 %
  18. Blazing Crescendo 25 %+19.6 %
  19. Lightning Strike 25 %+20.3 %
  20. Fists of Flame 25 %+18.1 %
  21. Lightning Bolt 25 %-11.2 %
  22. Temur Battle Rage 25 %+19.0 %
  23. Trumpet Blast 25 %+24.3 %
  24. Smelt 25 %+24.0 %
  25. Jeska's Will 25 %-10.6 %
  26. Guttersnipe 25 %+10.6 %
  27. Firespitter Whelp 25 %+22.2 %
  28. Cathartic Reunion 25 %+14.6 %
  29. Blasphemous Act 25 %-28.4 %
  30. Young Pyromancer 25 %+17.6 %
  31. Mana Geyser 25 %-6.4 %
  32. Mind Stone 25 %-5.9 %
  33. Lavaleaper 20 %+16.4 %
  34. Rapacious Dragon 17 %+13.4 %
  35. Wild-Magic Sorcerer 17 %+13.0 %
  36. Bonehoard Dracosaur 17 %+12.4 %
  37. Lathliss, Dragon Queen 17 %+13.5 %
  38. Dark Apostle 17 %+16.4 %
  39. Ardent Elementalist 17 %+15.6 %
  40. Boarding Party 17 %+15.9 %
  41. Rionya, Fire Dancer 17 %+15.6 %
  42. Burning Prophet 17 %+16.2 %
  43. Sin Prodder 17 %+15.6 %
  44. Aurora Phoenix 17 %+15.7 %
  45. Electrostatic Field 17 %+10.9 %
  46. Wildfire Eternal 17 %+16.4 %
  47. Birgi, God of Storytelling 17 %+4.7 %
  48. Manaform Hellkite 17 %+15.7 %
  49. Wild Magic Surge 17 %+4.1 %
  50. Atsushi, the Blazing Sky 17 %+10.5 %

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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