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Lulu, Stern Guardian

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Whenever an opponent attacks you, choose target creature attacking you. Put a stun counter on that creature.
{3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Final Fantasy Commander
Price
$2.97
EDHREC rank
#4037
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Lulu, Stern Guardian card art
Lulu, Stern Guardian puts a proliferate trigger on every attack, which turns Magistrate's Scepter from a slow inevitability into a genuine threat and makes any counter-stacking plan accelerate on its own. The cost of a four-mana 3/3 is real, but Tidus, Yuna's Guardian covers the attack requirement and turns the whole package into an engine that runs itself.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

70.7% of decks · synergy 0.62

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian is the natural home — Lulu, Stern Guardian's attack-triggered proliferate feeds directly into the extra-turn and counter-accumulation lines that Tidus, Yuna's Guardian is already trying to assemble, and the two cards name each other in lore-adjacent synergy that translates into actual mechanical overlap.

02
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

45.9% of decks · synergy 0.44

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles every proliferate trigger, so Lulu, Stern Guardian's on-attack ability counts twice per swing — that's two counters added to every permanent carrying them, which bends the game clock dramatically.

03
Yuna, Grand Summoner

Yuna, Grand Summoner

46.0% of decks · synergy 0.37

Yuna, Grand Summoner cares about Aeon counters and building toward high-cost activations, and Lulu, Stern Guardian's consistent proliferate keeps those counters ticking up without requiring additional mana investment each turn.

04
Kros, Defense Contractor

Kros, Defense Contractor

29.7% of decks · synergy 0.21

Kros, Defense Contractor hands out counters to opponents as a political tool, and Lulu, Stern Guardian's proliferate means those gifted counters keep growing — making the goad and counter-spreading gameplan snowball faster than opponents expect.

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 Lulu, Stern Guardian does its real work — the format's longer games give proliferate time to compound, and the density of planeswalkers, charge counters, and combo-adjacent artifacts makes every attack trigger meaningful. Legacy and Vintage are both legal on paper, but neither format is slow enough for a four-mana creature whose payoff is incremental counter growth rather than immediate board impact. Oathbreaker is worth a look if the signature spell involves proliferate or counter manipulation, since the compressed game state makes Lulu, Stern Guardian's repeated triggers hit harder in fewer turns.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.97 cheap tier

At $2.97, Lulu, Stern Guardian sits at the low end of mythic-rare pricing, which reflects its narrow combo-and-synergy demand rather than broad format play. It holds that price tier as long as Tidus, Yuna's Guardian decks remain popular, but there's no pressure to acquire it at a premium — supply is stable and it's not a card anyone is scrambling for outside its target shells.

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