Lich Lord Politics

Commander / EDH Casual Combo Control Flashback Mill Spellslinger UB (Dimir)

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Land (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x High Market
• 3x Island
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Port of Karfell
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Restless Reef
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tocasia's Dig Site
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Lich's Mastery

Instant (24)

• 1x Confounding Riddle
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dihada's Ploy
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Drown in Dreams
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Hostile Negotiations
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Snap
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Whir of Invention
• 1x Wrong Turn

Artifact (13)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Burning-Rune Demon
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
• 1x Kelpie Guide
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Lord of the Forsaken
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x See the Truth
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

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Maybeboard

Land (18)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Contaminated Aquifer
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dreadship Reef
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mistvault Bridge
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Artifact (4)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Instant (17)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Defabricate
• 1x Dimir Charm
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Pile On
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Suspend
• 1x Traumatic Visions
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Secrets of the Dead
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Creature (11)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Clever Conjurer
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Haughty Djinn
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Oriq Loremage
• 1x Stinging Lionfish
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Deliver Unto Evil
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Tendrils of Agony
• 1x Terror Tide

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Control/Combo deck powered by Dralnu, Lich Lord. Dralnu is an extremely janky commander due to his massive drawback, but that's also what makes him so interesting to brew around. This deck is a love letter to janky combos and interactions, and features several elaborate combo paths to victory. This is not a highly competitive deck, but it can usually durdle into a win around turn 8-9.

The deck aims to control the general flow of the game using counterspells and board wipes at key points to police the overall game state and not allow a single player to get too powerful. The overall plan is to stay political with our removal, cutting deals with several social cards like: Burning-Rune Demon, Epiphany at the Drownyard, etc.

Our main win condition is an explosive combo win, which can come from several different combo-pieces that also mostly work as regular spells for our overall game plan, especially as we can mostly recur them later using Dralnu. We can generate large quantities of mana with Turnabout/Dark Ritual by casting them and flashing them back with Dralnu, this mana can then be spent on a Drown in Dreams/Epiphany at the Drownyard or Exsanguinate to set us up to finish the game, or win outright with Laboratory Maniac/just killing everyone with Exsanguinate.

Interactions/Combos:

Lich's Mastery + Aetherflux Reservoir + Skirge Familiar let's us chain together massive storm counts for large life gain and card draw to shoot opponents with the Reservoir or just win with Laboratory Maniac (Dihada's Ploy can be snuck in there for additional life gain and card draw). Usually we can chain together enough casts of manarocks and other spells to draw the entire deck in one go. Gilded Lotus is notable here, as it lets us cast Lab Man by just discarding 5 random cards to the Familiar, ensuring we can combo out in one turn.

Lord of the Forsaken + Dralnu, Lich Lord can instantly end the game with Exsanguinate in the graveyard and flashing it back with Dralnu and pay a huge sum of life for a large X value. Alternatively we can deck ourselves with a Drown in Dreams in the graveyard.

Dreamscape Artist works really well with Drownyard Temple and Dakmor Salvage.

The untappers like Vizier of sands and Kelpie Guide work both as ramp (untapping lands or mana rocks) and to give us more Dralnu uses. We're running several lands that tap for multiple mana to maximise this effect (Lotus Field, Guildless Commons, Dimir Aqueduct, Temple of the False God), and to make our Turnabout turn as impactful as possible.

Date added	2 months
Last updated	13 hours
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone