Liliana: Ramp, Drain, Kill *RETIRED*
Commander / EDH
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Card Upgrade 20 —Nov. 6, 2017
-Grave Betrayal
-Contamination
+Liliana of the Dark Realms
+Torment of Hailfire
Grave Betrayal is too expensive for what it does. Stealing opponent's creatures when they die is nice, but it doesn't do a whole lot to advance my game plan. I find that I rarely target my reanimation spells at opponent's graveyards because my own creatures do a better job at ending the game with ETB effects.
Contamination is nice when I have the ability to pay for its upkeep. Locking players out of the game is definitely powerful, but I don't really enjoy it that much in our playgroup. We play powerful decks, but we all enjoy it a lot more when we can play the game, and this deck does a fine job winning on its own without the need to stop other people from playing magic.
With the new planeswalker rules, Liliana of the Dark Realms has found her way back into the deck. Pulling swamps from the deck to discard to Liliana, Defiant Necromancer or just to put in to play is great, and her ultimate is a really powerful effect.
Lots of people have been telling me that Torment of Hailfire is awesome, so I'm going to give it a shot. It won't always be the finisher that Exsanguinate is, but if they aren't drained out by it, their board and hand will most likely be devastated.