Laelia, the Blade Reforged

Bracket

• B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
• B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

• No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

2 known combos.

• Laelia, the Blade Reforged + All Will Be One + Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze
  Produces: Exile your library, Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Near-infinite damage
  View on Commander Spellbook
• Shalai and Hallar + Laelia, the Blade Reforged + Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze
  Produces: Exile your library, Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Near-infinite damage
  View on Commander Spellbook

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

• 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
  Laelia's last triggered ability doesn't care which player is exiling cards from the library or graveyard. Cards put into exile from your library or graveyard for any reason, such as the delve ability, cause the ability to trigger.
• 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a player is instructed to exile cards from their library "until" a certain event occurs (for example, because of the triggered ability of a spell with cascade or discover), that player exiles those cards one at a time. Laelia's last ability will trigger that many times.
• 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
  You'll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs if any are available.
• 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
  Cards exiled by Laelia, the Blade Reforged are exiled face up.
• 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
  You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions while playing the exiled card. If it's a land, you can't play it unless you have land plays available.
• 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
  If you play a card this way, it leaves exile and becomes a new object. If it returns to exile later in the turn, you can't play it again.
• 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
  The last ability triggers only once for each time cards are put into exile from your library and/or graveyard, no matter how many cards were exiled at the same time.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast