WhiteLegendary Creature — Elephant AngelLulu, Loyal Hollyphant
Mana value4Rank#9,985
The Commander
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on each tapped creature you control, then untap them.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Guide
Gameplan
Lulu turns expendable permanents into a steady stream of +1/+1 counters and pseudo-vigilance. Each turn you sacrifice, fetch, or blink a permanent so the end-step trigger fires, then your tapped attackers grow and untap to block. With a Background to define your second axis, you grind out a wide, ever-bigger board and crash in repeatedly.
Strengths
- Mono-white means easy Plains-heavy mana and access to white's best tax/recovery pieces.
- Free anthem-on-counters every turn that ALSO untaps your team, granting effective vigilance and double-duty attackers.
- Trivially easy to trigger — fetchlands, sacrifice fodder, treasures, clue/food, or blink all satisfy the condition.
- Background slot lets you tune the deck toward aggro, tokens, or value without changing your engine.
Weaknesses
- The end-step trigger only helps after combat or for blocking, so it's slow to close on its own.
- Mono-white card advantage and ramp are historically thin without dedicated payoffs.
- Counters get blanked by board wipes, leaving you with no permanent payoff.
- Needs a permanent to leave each turn — without enablers the ability whiffs entirely.
Key Cards
- Skullclamp — Sacrificing 1-toughness tokens draws cards AND reliably satisfies Lulu's left-the-battlefield clause every turn.
- Bennie Bracks, Zoologist — As a Background he turns your wide, growing token board into repeatable card draw on every end step.
- Phyrexian Reclamation — Repeatedly returns creatures to hand, an easy recurring sacrifice/leave trigger that also rebuilds after wipes.
- Anointed Procession — Doubles your tokens so Lulu's counters and untaps blanket a much wider board.
- Sun Titan — Recurs cheap fetchlands, sac outlets, and value permanents, keeping the engine running and triggering Lulu.
- Esper Sentinel — Premium mono-white card advantage that keeps your grindy gameplan fueled.
Upgrade Path
Lean into fast, free sacrifice fodder — Skullclamp, Bitterblossom-style generators in white like Mondrak/Anointed Procession, and cheap fetch effects — so the trigger never whiffs. Add proliferate (Inspiring Call, Evolution Sage) to compound counters and strong mono-white card advantage (Esper Sentinel, Welcoming Vampire, Smuggler's Copter) to fix white's draw problem. Pick a Background that matches your curve: Bennie Bracks for grind, or an aggressive Background plus mass-pump finishers to actually kill the table.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Swing wide with a counter-pumped board that untaps to attack and block every cycle.
- ▸Drain or grind with aristocrats payoffs like Bennie Bracks card advantage into overwhelming pressure.
- ▸Background-driven plan (e.g. aggressive go-wide or voltron) closes once Lulu has snowballed the team.
- ▸Overrun-style finishers (Craterhoof-adjacent white effects like Felidar Retreat counters plus combat).
Archetypes
- Tokens — Going wide gives Lulu many tapped creatures to pump and untap each end step for explosive swings.
- Aristocrats — Sacrificing creatures and permanents both fuels value engines and guarantees Lulu's trigger fires.
- Blink — Flicker effects make permanents leave the battlefield while generating ETB value, perfectly enabling the end step.
- Counters/+1+1 Synergy — Lulu naturally feeds counters, supporting proliferate and counter-matters payoffs.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (W), by popularity.
