Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Dragon Shaman
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 3
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #188 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.22 USD
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.)
Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat has 3 printings, first in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022). EDHREC ranks it #9,418 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Scarlet Witch decks (1,426 on EDHREC). It has 10 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Scarlet Witch: 1,426 decks
- Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power: 1,005 decks
- Vadrik, Astral Archmage: 873 decks
- Inferno of the Star Mounts: 264 decks
- Velomachus Lorehold: 212 decks
- Captain Ripley Vance: 204 decks
- Aisha of Sparks and Smoke: 202 decks
- Hawkeye, Young Avenger: 156 decks
Often played with Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
- : 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.
- : If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- : 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.
- : 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).
- : An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.