About Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend, Legendary creature — elf druid , designed by Alix Branwyn & Alix Branwyn first released in Mar, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven. It see play in 1 formats: Commander.
Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend would fit best in a Golgari (black-green) graveyard value or aristocrats-style deck that naturally fills its graveyard with creatures (via self-mill, sacrifice, or trading in combat) and can repeatedly exile them to keep Lluwen “prepared,” effectively turning it into a slow but steady token engine; this synergizes well with cards like Moldervine Reclamation, Bastion of Remembrance, Izoni, Thousand-Eyed, or other sacrifice payoffs, and it also pairs nicely with effects that care about creature tokens or lifegain. However, at four mana and requiring additional graveyard resources plus sorcery-speed setup, it’s relatively slow compared to more efficient Golgari token engines like Bitterblossom (faster, cheaper, harder to interact with), Awakening Zone (steady token ramp), or even Graveyard Trespasser–style value creatures that generate immediate impact; in Commander it could see niche play in casual Meren of Clan Nel Toth or Mazirek decks that don’t
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