Lo and Li, Twin Tutors

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5cmc 2/2 legendary — ETB tutors a Lesson or Noble card to hand, then grants lifelink to Noble creatures and Lesson spells you control. The card is heavily dependent on running both Noble creatures and Lesson spells (a narrow Strixhaven card subtype), making it a build-around in a very constrained shell; without that density, the tutor grabs one card and the static is mostly blank. Fringe in Commander due to the extreme deck-construction constraints; the payoff (lifelink on a narrow subset of permanents/spells) is underwhelming at 5 mana.

• Lesson is a card subtype (not a keyword) — Lesson cards must be in your sideboard in formats that use sideboards, but in Commander/Brawl there is no sideboard, so Lessons must be in the main 99 to be tutorable by this card.

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• Noble is a creature subtype that appears only on a small number of cards, mostly from Strixhaven; building around this card requires intentional Noble tribal density which is currently very limited in black.

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• The lifelink static applies to Lesson *spells* while on the stack, not permanents — this means instant/sorcery Lesson cards deal damage with lifelink as they resolve if they deal damage, but most Lessons are noncombat spells, making the lifelink clause largely irrelevant for the spell half.

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• EDHREC rank: #15,425