Discards for Lili

Commander / EDH Combo Discard Enchantment Mono-Black Sacrifice

Ishio

Creature (22)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Viscera Seer

Artifact (15)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x The Elderspell
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Instant (3)

• 1x Darkness
• 1x Liliana's Triumph
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

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Enchantment (18)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Words of Waste
• 1x Wound Reflection

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana of the Veil

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Instant (2)

• 1x Eliminate
• 1x Fatal Push

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The purpose of this deck is just focusing on punishing your opponents for discarding, by causing them to discard. While technically Liliana, Heretical Healer   wouldn't be ideal for this type of deck, I like to throw people off initially as they'll see her and think “Oh, Zombie recursion?”

Lili does play a small part in this deck, her +1 causes the discard, her -X helps recur a creature crucial to our plan, but she doesn't need to be on the field for the deck to function.

What our goal here is just stack discard effects with cards like Liliana's Caress, Megrim, Raiders' Wake, coupled with cards like Shrieking Affliction and Waste Not to help strengthen our hold over the game.

A lot of these effects do hurt us, but what's a little pain if not the end result being the reward of your opponents begging for mercy.

There are a couple more card options I'd like to try or fit in, but at the current state of testing, this deck is well shaped.

I'll eventually get to writing a primer for the deck, but the major inspiration of the deck was from Enral and their Taking Sadism to a Whole New Level Liliana deck. I suggest you deck it out.

I've recently decided to try one other approach on this, running within the same realm of our discard, but also trying to slightly get on a small stax approach. Nothing big, nothing deck breaking, but have the previous Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood backup combo in there wasn't something I ever aimed for, or needed to tutor out. I feel like getting Entomb is a good way to dump one of our recurring creatures, and while there is Buried Alive, there's a lot of GY removal that I don't want to dump too many of our recurring creatures in there. I know it's an "up to…" effect, but I feel comfortable and safe dumping for 1 creature instead of for a max of 2. This is just testing grounds.

The acquire board are cards coming, but needing to decide what to cut to make room for them.

Also, if you enjoy the deck, please +1 Upvote this deck. It means the world to me!

Top Ranked	Achieved #54 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Cruel Control 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Discard 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Enchantment 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.04
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Marit Lage, Zombie 2/2 B
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