Liliana's Standard Bearer

Creature — Zombie Knight

Flash

When Liliana's Standard Bearer enters the battlefield, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died (was put into the graveyard from the battlefield) under your control this turn.

Discussion (44)

Crow-Umbra on Isshin, The One Who Conquered Heaven

1 month ago

Ah for sure, just wanted to make sure my feedback is relevant to what you actually need some help with SpeedBuster.

I've witnessed the power of Sword of the Animist in my own Isshin deck. In the last game I played with it, I was able to pull all of my basics out! If you're cool with 31 lands, then more power to you. I usually try not to go lower than 34-35, depending on the deck. I usually only see cEDH tier decks running lands in the high 20s to low 30s, due to their fast mana.

If you're interested in draw and synergies with tokens/Aristocrats, I'd suggest checking out the following:

• Skullclamp - If you have the budget for it. Great for chewing up tokens
• Deadly Dispute - Bonus treasure token is great
• Plumb the Forbidden - Especially with a board full of tokens
• Reckoner's Bargain
• Liliana's Standard Bearer - Post board-wipe gas

These options are all pretty cheap and useful at various points of the game for quick bumps.

Other draw options that are more repeatable, but still fit with Isshin:

• Maybe swap out Smuggler's Copter for Tome of Legends. Attacking with Isshin will put a couple Lore counters on it each time.
• Idol of Oblivion
• Tymna the Weaver - If you have the budget for it.
• War Room

DreadKhan on Meren EDH deck help

2 months ago

If you can go infinite with Haakon's ability, usually via a 1 or 2 drop you can recast either for mana to cast it or have extra for infinite mana, any aristocrat payoff will win the game, as will Tendrils of Agony since Haakon lets you cast from graveyard a knight infinite times. It's card intensive, but using Haakon lets me use Liliana's Standard Bearer in the deck, a card that has drawn me more than 10 cards some games, and can go infinite with Haakon's ability potentially (until you deck yourself I guess), using a 1 drop to generate mana to recur the bigger knight a few times. It's a pretty easy combo to tutor out with Protean Hulk, but now that I finally got the right art for Gravecrawler, I added that with Protean Hulk to make infinite sacrifice wins really easy to pull off. It's easy to interact with, but I can hopefully rebuild if I need to via my recursion. Protean Hulk can find Gravecrawler, Carrion Feeder, and Pitiless Plunderer to get infinite death triggers, so at end of turn you use Meren to bring back Protean Hulk to sac it to find payoff creatures to win on the spot. This is better than Haakon, but the OG Gravecrawler art is unsettling!

I do agree though, you don't really need to go infinite with Meren to win or have fun. Meren can win grindy games with Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest and Sheoldred, Whispering One. I still find space for Visara the Dreadful for situations like that, where I need repeated targeted removal to win, and to swing if there is nothing better to do she's still a 5/5 Flying. Not sure I'd recommend that card to anyone else, but I usually like seeing it.

DreadKhan on sacrifice

4 months ago

Ohran Frostfang and Toski, Bearer of Secrets offer you some repeatable card draw for doing what you want to be doing. Frostfang's Deathtouch is really handy earlier game, draw is always handy. Midnight Reaper and Grim Haruspex are also good, but might be too many payoffs if you don't need the card draw. Blossoming Bogbeast and Thunderfoot Baloth are good ways to get Trample and a buff, handy especially if you've got deathtouch, 1 damage kills then. If you run enough Trample effects, you could also consider Saryth, the Viper's Fang or Bow of Nylea, as there are more good trample providers, some budget some not.

Over Diabolic Tutor, you could run cards like Jarad's Orders and Final Parting, or even Buried Alive to find Gravecrawler and a sac outlet, or Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and a 1 drop knight to generate a ton of death triggers, Universal Automaton is infinite mana with Ashnod's Altar I guess. Haakon always has to end up in the yard to work, but these are similar MV to Diabolic to maybe find a value engine. Gravecrawler loves Carrion Feeder or any other infinite sac outlet, but it also loves Pitiless Plunderer, at which point you can go infinite with this, making your army very tall. Haakon is more rugged than Gravecrawler, but is jankier. If you use Haakon, you can also try Liliana's Standard Bearer, both as a way to recover from a wipe and to draw cards via Haakon's recursion.

Over 'find a land when ___ dies', I would look at some options that let you sacrifice the creature for the land, such as Diligent Farmhand, which is always a source of a death trigger, even if you don't have an outlet out. Dawntreader Elk is also very good. Not saying Wood Elves are bad, but it's nice to have a death trigger attached. You might run more ramp period, any reason you don't run 1 drop mana like Birds of Paradise or Llanowar Elves, or even Elves of Deep Shadow to speed up your deck, getting to your Commander quicker is a big advantage in higher power games, especially with a powerful effect like your Commander.

Especially if you don't run more 1 or 2 MV permanents, you should look at Culling Ritual, that card is terrifying at higher power games, keep an eye out if people play a lot of 1 and 2 drops in your group to see if it will be relevant, but it can be very good.

Sarulf, Realm Eater is a crazy thing you could sneak in as a way to deal with an out of control opponent, your Commander can pump him with counters, and once he's big enough, he can clear the board completely (after you sacrifice stuff), so you can still use something like Living Death to put your dead creatures back into play, opponent's without a sac outlet have everything exiled. Sarulf will very quickly be big enough to clear the entire board, and he doesn't die when he does it, so it's back to your Commander and Sarulf vs the world, but if other players have used too many resources, they might not be prepared to come back. Maybe not a good choice if your area plays cards like Mindslaver a lot, but that's one of the biggest wipes around.

Props for using Mazirek!

DreadKhan on ooo baby its MEREN

4 months ago

I find Sakura-Tribe Elder is a very good card in Meren. I run 5 cards that serve a similar purpose presently, and I am rarely unhappy to draw them (though I run a lot less lands). If I can get a card like Elder out early, I can end up with a ton of mana while adding to Meren's XP count. Blood Pet is another interesting option.

Here are a few other cards I think might work. If you like to win with attacking, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest is a nice option, those counters can add up quickly. Ohran Frostfang is another great attacking option, probably better in Meren than Toski, Bearer of Secrets, who might also be a fun alternative to Beast Whisperer. There are also Grim Haruspex and Midnight Reaper, these can be better than Phyrexian Arena in my experience. I also use Liliana's Standard Bearer, which can draw a mittfull of cards, including after you are boardwiped. Rise of the Dread Marn can help vs board wipes as well. Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder can make a fair number of tokens, and if you can keep sacrificing them he won't die (and becomes a very solid token generator). Foundation Breaker is a pretty handy removal effect stapled to a body, it's Evoke cast is also cheap XP (and a body in the yard). Sidisi, Undead Vizier is almost too good in Meren in my experience, but I feel I should mention her.

Cool deck, lots of interesting choices in here! I think you have 2 Willow Geist atm.

Asgeren on Bohemian Rhapsody

5 months ago

Thanks, yeah this deck is great, one of my favourites!

I'll definitely have to check out Liliana's Standard Bearer.

Daedalus19876 on Toxic Relationship: Hapatra EDH [PRIMER]

7 months ago

Testing changes, to pull it back up to a cEDH level:

OUT: Nesting Grounds, Forest, Survival of the Fittest, Deadly Brew, Liliana's Standard Bearer, Cryptolith Rite, Smell Fear, Sylvan Anthem, Heroic Intervention

IN: Phyrexian Tower (the beautiful alter that Profet93 gave me!), Deathrite Shaman, Worldly Tutor, Noxious Revival, Culling Ritual, Fynn, the Fangbearer, Lotus Petal, Contamination, Opposition Agent

Endersword334 on Elenda, Priority of Boardwipe

7 months ago

Thanks GizmoTurtulez! I thought about doing Haakon, Stromgald Scourge but I couldn't find a good way to incorporate it into the deck without basing it around reanimator. I thought about Liliana's Standard Bearer but I find that more of the opponents creatures are supposed to die and not mine. I also don't have much mana after a board wipe usually. I was thinking of re-doing the deck with Gisa, Glorious Resurrector and decay for double death triggers, in which Liliana's Standard Bearer would be great. I probably will.

GizmoTurtulez on Elenda, Priority of Boardwipe

7 months ago

Haakon, Stromgald Scourge is another to consider Liliana's Standard Bearer is good