Liliana, Heretical Healer

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Lifelink

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Combos

• Liliana, Heretical Healer + Loyal Retainers + Saffi Eriksdotter
• Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger + Liliana, Heretical Healer

Tokens

• Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
• Zombie 2/2 B

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

angelx on Runo Stromkirk Clerics

7 months ago

18/09

We actually are playing lower end for now, just going to tighten up the SeaBeasts and the staples a little. Also Davey Jones' Locker.

OUT - Saheeli's Artistry - Snow-Covered Swamp - Deceiver Exarch - Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip - Shield Broker - Stormsurge Kraken - Cavern of Souls - Reflections of Littjara - Talisman of Dominance

IN - Brinelin, the Moon Kraken - Quest for Ula's Temple - Marit Lage's Slumber - Lightning Greaves - Sapphire Medallion - Swiftfoot Boots - The Grim Captain's Locker - Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip - Blood on the Snow

Profet93 on Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

9 months ago

SufferFromEDHD I'm sincerely honored you're asking for my opinion. Sadly, walkers, tokens and proliferation are not my strong suit. I will give you my thoughts for what it's worth. Some suggestions are better than others but I want to throw the best possible PW's I found for your strategy/what you're looking for...

PW's

Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury - The best PW for your deck IMO as it creates mana dork tokens to defend itself/proliferate, is naturalize and potentially even draw.

Garruk, Primal Hunter - Maybe not because of triple green in a 3 color deck. It makes tokens, draws cards and can create a potential army. Really depends on your mana base and how much of a payoff you believe you can achieve with it

Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip - Can potentially create a token upon death. Its trigger might be a bit difficult given your lack of creatures and the payoff is nothing crazy given it's a flip walker but potentially worth considering

Oko, the Ringleader - Seems solid. Fair mana cost, (virtual) card advantage, token generation to defend itself, and a strong ult that is easy to achieve.

Oko, Thief of Crowns - Only reason I mention is because of how broken he was in modern. Idk if it can hold it's weight in EDH but it can come down early and really mess with one guys commander centric deck.

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools - Creates lots of tokens to defend itself, card advantage/sac outlet and a strong ult.

Vraska, Betrayal's Sting - Card advantage, proliferation, creature and removal/transformation. It's ult could be an alt wincon perhaps given proliferation?

Misc

The Ozolith - Would this card work for your deck?

FauxFaux on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

Brenard, Culinary Castellan {W}{U}{G}

Legendary Planeswalker - Brenard

Whenever ~ enters the battlefield, create 3 Food Tokens. As an additional cost to activate ~'s abilities, either create or sacrifice a Food Token for each counter removed or placed onto ~.

+1: Up to one target Food or artifact you control becomes a X/X Golem creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are equal to the number of Foods you control." until the end of your next turn.

-2: You may put a colorless, non-creature artifact from your hand onto the battlefield. It becomes a 3/3 Colorless Food Golem creature.

-7: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact, Food, or Golem creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 3 life, or have target opponent lose 3 life."

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It's Brenard, Ginger Sculptor! But a walker!

Time for a challenge;

I'd like to see a Garuuk Orign style Flip-walker! See Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip or Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip

CrunchyDragon on Gorgeous Girls Deck(list)

1 year ago

Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip(any set not Commander Collection or San Diego Comic Con Promos) and Liliana of the Dark Realms should probably be on this list.

Honestly you could probably fit most of the Liliana cards in here.

wallisface on Demons in the Moonlight

2 years ago

Some thoughts:

• as you’ve already eluded to in your deck description, Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip is a complete nonbo here, and is likely to be more of a liability than an asset a lot of the time.

• you have far too few ways to make use of Archfiend's Vessel to make it worth it imo (especially as the only way to make use of it is using the planeswalker that imo shouldn’t be in the deck).

• I think Ecstatic Awakener  ^Flip isn’t providing a good enough payoff. Its basically a weaker Grim Flayer (or Tarmogoyf) but requires a lot more effort to have it do anything.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Ayara or Liliana, heretoc healer

2 years ago

For reference:

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip

This depends on your preferences, obviously.

Both will be an aristocrats list, but serve very different purposes in the strategy. Ayara is your sac outlet and a prime source of damage. You'll want to cast her early and recast her often. She'll be a centerpiece of her deck.

Liliana should enter and then be immediately transformed. I'd imagine she occupies a rather weird spot on your curve. You want to cast her early so you can benefit from her the most, but then again, she's a payoff for the lategame. Even if you just ignore the ultimate, she'll need a crowded graveyard to do something useful with her -X.

Tl;dr: I think Ayara is a lot more powerful, but Lili definitely wins the flavour contest.

jarncards on Dead WOMan Walking

2 years ago

Fiend Artisan is green

I think Sidisi, Undead Vizier is awful unless you use a lot of reanimate effects, it's just so expensive to tutor. Geth, Lord of the Vault is crazy strong, but he's a totally different deck most of the time. I'd dump Liliana's Steward too. You and one other player go down a card, putting the rest of the table ahead of you by one card, but they also get to choose, so you're never going to get the card you want out of their hand.

Hobbling Zombie and other cards like it, like Putrid Goblin are excellent at keeping attacks away from you while you build up your board. and the pseudo revival effects let you abuse a lot of other zombie mechanics. Butcher Ghoul, and Geralf's Messenger or Doomed Dissenter are ok too. i wouldnt use Sightless Ghoul though. They are all better than Reassembling Skeleton though. Keep Relentless Dead. Im not sure if they make the cut, but they arent scary, but that means they are good at keeping a target off your back til youre readyfor one.

Magus of the Bridge is great for a non-zombie. Probably use it over Tainted Adversary, i feel like that one just costs way too much before its good. Dreadhorde Invasion is incredibly good, as is Mikaeus, the Unhallowed. i'd put those in for sure.Tormod, the Desecrator is still really good. Zombie Trailblazer is devastating to the person sitting to your left in particular or anyone playing five colors/ not black. When you REALLY need someone to not cast a spell. make all their lands swamps during the upkeep. almost every board wipe is a sorcery.

I think you might want to dump Thought Vessel for Mind Stone or even Blood Pet. In many cases discarding is beneficial to zombies. If you want to keep infinite hand size, Zombie Infestation and discard at will cards are pretty helpful.

I think Noxious Ghoul is the single best zombie card in the game, in this deck it basically says, tap your commander, wipe everyone else's boards. Use it.

Sutured Ghoul is runner up. If you include it and other high power zombies like Rotting Regisaur you can put him out as a 20+/xx easily, and then get 2/2s. HE doesnt play nice with mass reanimate, but he's an alternate win condition on his own. also its a great tool since youre probably gonna sac the dino and Phyrexian Soulgorger pretty quickly. If you sacrifice him on the end step before your turn i think you will almost always have a game ending horde.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel is utterly stupid. The absolute best reanimate target you could hope for. and since your card draw is gonna cost a ton of life, hes always going to be valuable. Whip of Erebos is probably the only other reasonable lifegain choice.That one makes aggressive attacking suddenly super safe

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia is really cheap at making zombies if you dont have any other sources of decayed zombs. they cant block, but you get so many death triggers

Graveborn Muse is great card draw.

Hatred is usually better than Endless Scream

I think Gempalm Polluter is fantastic. its card draw, puts a big zombie into your graveyard, and hurts a player if things are going well.

I don't think Endless Ranks of the Dead is that great, but it certainly is cool. Wand of Orcus is really cool too. I'm not sure if its good though.

Board wipes will shut you down as you have things right now. Crowded Crypt and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, that way, even if there's a board wipe you still have a whole army of zombs to multiply even after everything is dead. Rise of the Dread Marn is another fantastic option that you can abuse if you run things like Carrion Feeder too. Run Carrion Feeder, period. It lets you loop gravecrawler and saves yourself from control magic and exile spells.

Consider Toxic Deluge and STRONGLY CONSIDER Nevinyrral's Disk. Single target removal like tragic slip is ok because you can choose when things die, but other cards like Malicious Affliction are going to miss a lot of key targets. And you absolutely need to have a way to clear artifacts and especially enchantments.

Dark Salvation is pretty cool. not sure if it is good enough, but i'd use it rather than some of your spot removal.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General is really absurdly strong if you can get it out, and even if it dies the next turn you can draw a bunch off of it. Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip you already know is great.

If you diversify your black lands, Field of the Dead is the best land. its silly how good it is. I'll start you off with the autoinclude Unholy Grotto. Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip is too.

I'll see what you make and see if i find anything else. later

CJMikey on Tinybones Discard

2 years ago

Recent changes:

OUT: Instant/Sorcery Mind Peel Unmask Horrifying Revelation Tragic Slip Yahenni's Expertise

Enchantment Megrim Shrieking Affliction

Creature Fell Specter Virus Beetle Stronghold Rats

IN: Instant/Sorcery Despise Divest Toxic Deluge Heartless Act Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip

Enchantment Liliana's Caress

Creature Elvish Doomsayer Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip Murderous Rider Rankle, Master of Pranks