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Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero

Legendary Creature — Human Rebel

{X}, {T}: Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
{3}: Put target Rebel card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Nemesis
Price
$2.22
EDHREC rank
#18896
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Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero card art
Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero is the engine Rebel tribal runs on — a repeatable, at-will tutor stapled to a creature that also cleans up your graveyard to keep the engine churning. The cost is real: three mana plus tap at sorcery speed means she needs haste or a slow table to fire immediately, and she folds to the same spot removal that wrecks any creature-based value engine — unlike something resilient like Treasonous Ogre, she has no built-in protection.

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 Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero's natural home — the 100-card singleton format rewards a repeatable tutor more than almost any other format does, and the Rebel chain she enables turns every activation into a cascading board presence. In Legacy she is technically legal and was genuinely played in dedicated Rebel toolbox decks during the format's earlier years, but the pace of the format has long since moved past a three-mana tap-to-tutor creature. Vintage legality is academic — she sees no play there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Lin Sivvi, Defiant HeroTreasonous OgreChildren of KorlisStaff of Domination

Lin Sivvi, Defiant HeroTreasonous OgreChildren of KorlisStaff of Domination

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite red mana; Infinite card draw; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Put all Rebels from your library onto the battlefield

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Price Context

Current price

$2.22 cheap tier

At $2.22, Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero sits firmly in the cheap tier — low enough that she's a no-brainer inclusion for any Rebel build. That price reflects a narrow audience (she's nearly useless outside Rebel synergy) but steady demand from that audience keeps her from dropping further.

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