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Iroh, Grand Lotus

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally3 generic manaGreen manaBlue manaRed mana

The graveyard-as-spellbook engine, given a 5/5 body and a clock. The load-bearing line grants every non-Lesson instant and sorcery in your yard flashback at its own mana cost during your turn, which means each spell you cast is also a deferred second copy waiting to be spent. The discipline that keeps this from spiraling is flashback's exile clause itself: a recast removes the card from the graveyard, so the engine rewards a deep, varied yard over a single recursive loop, and it taxes you the full mana each time rather than handing back free reuse. Lessons get a separate carve-out down to flat one-mana flashback, since they are modest by design and would otherwise sit dead. What separates this from a one-shot like Snapcaster Mage or Yawgmoth's Will is that the access is persistent and turn-gated: the longer it survives, the more your discard, your removal, and your cantrips become a renewable resource rather than spent cards. Firebending 2 keeps it from being a pure value piece on a stick, applying pressure to life totals on its own while the flashback economy compounds in the background. It is built to make a full graveyard read like a second hand, with the cost structure ensuring you spend mana to convert that hand rather than draining it for free.

Iroh, Grand Lotus (tla)
TLA · #227rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.39
Foil: $0.49
Oracle Text

Rules text

Firebending 2 During your turn, each non-Lesson instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast a card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) During your turn, each Lesson card in your graveyard has flashback 1 generic mana.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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