Villainess

Commander / EDH* Mono-Black

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Sorcery (24)

• 1x Cemetery Recruitment
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Disentomb
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Duress
• 1x Endless Obedience
• 1x Famine
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Liliana's Defeat
• 1x Liliana's Indignation
• 1x Liliana's Influence
• 1x Liliana's Spoils
• 1x Macabre Waltz
• 1x Mind Rot
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Necromantic Summons
• 1x Reave Soul
• 1x Rise from the Grave
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Settle the Score

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Chain Veil

Land (30)

• 30x Swamp

Creature (20)

• 1x Arisen Gorgon
• 1x Baleful Force
• 1x Demonlord Belzenlok
• 1x Desiccated Naga
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Griselbrand
• 1x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Liliana's Elite
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Liliana's Shade
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Rottenheart Ghoul
• 1x Undead Servant
• 1x Veilborn Ghoul
• 4x Will-o'-the-Wisp

Planeswalker (8)

• 1x Liliana, Death Wielder
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope
• 1x Liliana, the Necromancer
• 1x Liliana, Untouched By Death
• 1x Liliana Vess

Commander (1)

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Enchantment (9)

• 1x Brink of Disaster
• 1x Demonic Pact
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Oath of Liliana
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Triumph of Cruelty

Instant (7)

• 1x Cruel Revival
• 1x Dark Dabbling
• 1x Flesh to Dust
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Ulcerate
• 1x Unholy Hunger

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Villainess is a lore deck based on life gain and drain through mill and direct damage with the Lilliana Planeswalkers and enchantments.

Liliana Vess grew up in Benalia on Dominaria under the thumb of her father, a general and ruler of the lands he fought for. Even at this stage in her life, she was a temptress and more often than not, didn't care a thing for the kind of reputation that sort of activity would spawn. This infuriated those her father had entrusted to watch her, but her antics did not change one bit. Under the tutelage of Lady Ana, Liliana learned the healing arts, though secretly she also dabbled into the forbidden arts of necromancy, thinking the manipulation of death would enhance her healing abilities.

Liliana's privileged life would come to an abrupt end, though, when her brother Josu suffered a horrible corruption at the hands of her father's enemies. As a test, perhaps as much to rein in the reckless girl, Lady Ana gave her the task of gathering the required esis root to cure her brother. Unfortunately, she arrived too late, as her father's dark enemies had razed the groves where the Esis Tree had grown. She only learned of this fact when she encountered a strange man who claimed to be a supporter of her father. He offered his assistance and instructed Liliana to use necromancy to reactive the remains of the Esis Tree and prepare a potion out of it, though he warned that her family would not want her to use this cure.

She returned to the castle and despite the warnings of Lady Ana, she used the cure. Truly, it cured Josu of his affliction, but only at the cost of driving him insane and poisoning him anew. Realizing that she had to kill the crazed creature that Josu had become, Liliana turned his victims into zombies to fight him. At that moment, she unlocked her planeswalker's spark and ended up on Innistrad.[2]

On Innistrad, Liliana perfected her necromantic skills, preferring the black art of the ghoulcallers over the blue method of stitchers, for which she had no patience. She studied under vampires and liches but, fearing her brother's fate, refused to join them in death to fully master the art. At some point, she encountered the lord of Innistrad, Sorin Markov. They dueled and Sorin crushed her and pronounced her too weak to be a threat. Then he told her that Innistrad was his, and that she best be a civil guest—or he'd find and kill her. Once confident of her abilities, she returned to the ruins of Vess estate in Dominaria, vowing to enact revenge on the mysterious man who tricked her to curse Josu. During the confrontation, the so-called Raven Man escaped.

At some point after the Mending, a severely weakened Nicol Bolas met with a wizened Liliana Vess. She was jealous of the fact that he was seemingly unaffected by the mending. He berated her, stating that he had lost more power than she could learn in a dozen lifetimes. Bolas lamented that only a few years previously, planeswalkers like them were akin to living gods who exerted their power and influence throughout the Multiverse. Bolas then brokered a deal with the four demons who would give Liliana her youth and a fraction of her old power back, in exchange for servitude.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.74
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Knight 2/2 B