Liu Bei, Lord of Shu
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Liu Bei gets +2/+2 as long as you control a permanent named Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior or a permanent named Zhang Fei, Fierce Warrior.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition III
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25333
Liu Bei, Lord of Shu is a 3/4 legendary creature that gets +2/+2 as long as you control Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior and/or Zhang Fei, Fierce Warrior — a payoff entirely contingent on running his two legendary companions. Without them, he's a vanilla 3/4 for five mana, which is not a card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Liu Bei, Lord of Shu is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in any of those formats is not where he lives. In Commander he fits narrowest as a Legends-tribal piece or a flavor build around the Portal Three Kingdoms legendary cycle — the stat boost from Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior and Zhang Fei, Fierce Warrior is real but demands dedicating three legendary slots to a single payoff. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; a five-mana do-nothing without his crew doesn't register. Oathbreaker has the same problem at a compressed game length where he'll rarely matter.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.