GolgariLegendary Creature — Elf DruidLluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
Mana value2Rank#11,138
The Commander
When Lluwen enters, mill four cards, then you may put a creature or land card from among the milled cards on top of your library.
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, Discard a land card: Create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token for each land card in your graveyard.
Guide
Gameplan
Lluwen fills your graveyard with self-mill and rewards you for stacking lands there, then converts that graveyard into a swarm of Worm tokens. You play a Golgari midrange/value game—mill, recur, and ramp early—then activate Lluwen repeatedly to flood the board and win through go-wide aggression, sacrifice payoffs, or token-based combos.
Strengths
- Cheap two-mana commander that immediately advances your gameplan and smooths draws via the top-of-library tuck
- Scales hard into the late game—huge graveyards mean huge Worm batches off a single activation
- Naturally fuels graveyard/aristocrats synergies and lands-matter payoffs
- Repeatable token engine that's a token of card advantage even after board wipes
Weaknesses
- Token ability is mana-intensive (, tap, plus a land discard) and only nets value with a stocked yard
- Graveyard hate (Bojuka Bog, Rest in Peace) can blank both the mill payoff and the Worm count
- Worms enter without haste and are individually small, so a single sweeper undoes a turn of work
- Self-mill can occasionally mill key pieces with no easy way to retrieve them
Key Cards
- Splendid Reclamation — Returns every land from your graveyard to play, ramping hard while feeding Worm counts on future activations.
- Crucible of Worlds — Lets you replay lands you discard to Lluwen and keep recycling fetches/sacrifice lands into the yard.
- Ramunap Excavator — A creature version of Crucible that turns your stocked graveyard lands into endless plays and discard fodder.
- Dakmor Salvage — A dredge land you can repeatedly mill and discard, perfectly synergizing with Lluwen's land-discard cost.
- Zulaport Cutthroat — Drains each opponent whenever a Worm dies, turning your token swarm into a closing aristocrats engine.
- Avenger of Zendikar — Doubles down on land-token payoffs and provides a second go-wide finisher alongside the Worms.
Upgrade Path
Add efficient ramp and fetchlands (plus Crucible/Ramunap Excavator) to load the graveyard fast and discount Lluwen's activation. Lean into a sacrifice subtheme—Ashnod's Altar, Viscera Seer, and multiple drain payoffs—so each Worm batch can immediately threaten lethal. Then tighten the curve with graveyard-fueled combos like Splendid Reclamation loops and protect the engine with recursion and a sweeper-resilient gameplan.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Alpha strike with a wide Worm swarm, ideally pumped by Overrun-style effects or anthems
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Zulaport Cutthroat/Blood Artist as you sacrifice Worms en masse
- ▸Reanimating large finishers or comboing with Avenger of Zendikar and land-token synergies
Archetypes
- Tokens / Go-Wide — Lluwen's activated ability mass-produces Worm tokens scaling with your graveyard, the core of a wide aggressive board.
- Aristocrats — Expendable Worms are ideal fodder for sacrifice outlets and drain payoffs like Blood Artist effects.
- Lands / Graveyard Value — The whole engine cares about lands in the yard, rewarding fetchlands, dredge, and land recursion.
- Reanimator — Heavy self-mill feeds reanimation spells to cheat out big threats from a bursting graveyard.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BG), by popularity.
