Lo and Li, Royal Advisors
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
Whenever an opponent discards a card or mills one or more cards, put a +1/+1 counter on each Advisor you control.
: Target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #19299
Lo and Li, Royal Advisors hands both players two extra draws each turn — that's a firehose of card advantage that dominates the table the moment it lands. The cost is symmetry: every opponent benefits too, so you need to extract more value from those cards than anyone else at the table.
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 |
Commander is where Lo and Li, Royal Advisors belongs — the symmetrical draw scales hardest when three opponents all flood their hands while you're the one with a built-in payoff engine. Wheels, library-matters commanders, and anything that punishes card draws or rewards raw hand size will want this on the table. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes poorly against faster, one-sided card advantage engines that don't gift the opponent anything. Outside Commander, the card reads as a liability more than an asset.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Lo and Li, Royal Advisors is pure bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or trade-binder grab. Symmetrical draw pieces at this price rarely spike unless a commander gets printed that breaks the effect wide open, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a spec target.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.