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Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion

Legendary Creature — Gith Warrior

If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
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CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Battle for Baldur's Gate Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1388
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Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion card art
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion doubles every counter placed on any permanent you control — that's an immediate, compounding board presence that warps combat math from the turn she lands. The cost is a three-mana 3/3 with no built-in protection, so she dies to every Doom Blade in the room; pair her with counter engines like Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful or proliferate loops around Jace, Cunning Castaway and the payoff justifies the risk.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Reyhan, Last of the AbzanYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

65.9% of decks · synergy 0.64

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful is a counter-stacking engine by design, and Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion turns every counter Reyhan redistributes into a doubled investment — creatures grow twice as fast, and Yoshimaru snowballs from the very first legendary spell.

02
Minthara, Merciless Soul

Minthara, Merciless Soul

62.8% of decks · synergy 0.59

Minthara, Merciless Soul rewards going wide with +1/+1 counters after combat damage, and Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion doubles those counters the moment they land, turning a modest swing into an exponential board state within two or three attacks.

03
Nalia de'Arnise

Nalia de'Arnise

61.9% of decks · synergy 0.58

Nalia de'Arnise puts +1/+1 counters on creatures that connect, and Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion ensures each of those counters counts for two — the synergy is straightforward enough that Nalia de'Arnise decks run Lae'zel in over 60% of lists.

04
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

61.2% of decks · synergy 0.57

Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness accumulates counters as opponents lose life, and Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion makes that accumulation twice as efficient, converting chip damage from any source into a rapidly growing threat.

05
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

59.9% of decks · synergy 0.54

Commodore Guff places loyalty counters on planeswalkers, and Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion doubles them — walkers that would take four activations to ultimate suddenly need only two, which is a meaningful tempo swing in a superfriends shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion actually earns her slot: the format's slower clock and multiplayer board states give her time to generate compounding value, and counter-matters synergies are dense enough that she fits into several established archetypes rather than demanding her own shell. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but irrelevant — three mana for a 3/3 with no immediate impact doesn't clear the bar in formats that win on turn one or two. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if your signature spell generates counters, since the faster game speed at least matches her mana cost. Outside those formats she's simply not legal, and there's no competitive context where she'd see play if she were.

Key Combos

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Price Context

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Current pricing data for Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given her 60%+ inclusion rates across several high-volume Commander archetypes, she's unlikely to be a bulk throw-in — if you're building any counter-doubling shell, pick her up sooner rather than later.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.