Liu Bei, Lord of Shu

Liu Bei is all about assembling your Three Kingdoms faction—specifically getting Guan Yu and Zhang Fei into play alongside him. When you do, he becomes a 4/6 unblockable threat that's genuinely hard to interact with thanks to horsemanship. The deck is built around tutoring, cheating, or ramping into these specific legendary creatures, then riding your evasive army to victory. Since horsemanship creatures can only be blocked by other horsemanship creatures (rare in most metas), you're often swinging in unopposed. This is a somewhat casual-focused strategy that rewards patience and has a fun "assembling the power trio" narrative to it.

Your gameplan involves early white ramp and card advantage to find your named partners—cards like Enlightened Tutor and Idyllic Tutor are all-stars here. Once Liu Bei and his friends hit the board, you're primarily winning through combat damage, leveraging unblockable evasion and incremental lord effects. The deck can also pivot toward some protection and anthem effects to make your creatures even more threatening. Because you're leaning on specific legendary creatures, redundancy matters: consider cards that search your library or reanimate key pieces if one gets removed.

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