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Varina, Lich Queen of Card Draw

Commander / EDH* Tribal WUB (Esper) Zombie

Rahvin2015


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Varina, Lich Queen is an exciting new Esper Zombi tribal Commander...who is actually a zombie herself!

She has two abilities:

Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life.

This is the reason we want to play with Varina - she does what zombie decks want to do most: cycle through the deck, draw cards and pitch them to the yard selectively for reanimation. The selectivity allowed by discarding the cards is much better than direct mill, because we can choose to keep in hand those cards we cannot easily recur from the grave, while pitching zombies and reanimation targets.

On top of that, she gains life, which can be relevant for what is otherwise a deck focused on combat. We can swing with more of our undead hordes, drawing more cards, filling the grave, gaining more life, and have more of a life buffer against opponents' attacks. More importantly, we can more freely use our life points as a resource.

2, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

This is less useful. I won't go quite so far as to say that this is effectively flavor text...but we'd rather reuse cards in our grave, not just exile them. This is an okay option if someone is exiling our grave anyway, just to get some value before it's all gone, and it's fine to use on some fetchlands or other cards we don't need or can't get back anyway. However, it's absolutely not what we're building around, and this is not the key to an overwhelming horde of zombies.

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Revision 11 See all

(5 years ago)

+1 Ashnod's Altar maybe
+1 Sphinx's Revelation main
Date added 5 years
Last updated 4 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

18 - 0 Mythic Rares

62 - 0 Rares

35 - 0 Uncommons

10 - 0 Commons

Cards 143
Avg. CMC 3.35
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Haste, Zombie Warrior 4/4 B
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