Surveil Mastery

Standard* Combo UB (Dimir)

resilient

Creature (15)

• 4x Dimir Spybug
• 3x Doom Whisperer
• 2x Lazav, the Multifarious
• 3x Stitcher's Supplier
• 3x Thoughtbound Phantasm

Sorcery (9)

• 2x Creeping Chill
• 4x Discovery / Dispersal
• 3x Mastermind's Acquisition

Instant (10)

• 3x Cast Down
• 2x Opt
• 3x Spell Pierce
• 2x Vraska's Contempt

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Lich's Mastery

Land (24)

• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 6x Island
• 10x Swamp
• 4x Watery Grave

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Sideboard

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Golden Demise
• 1x Ritual of Soot
• 2x Unmoored Ego

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Enhanced Surveillance
• 1x Lich's Mastery

Creature (4)

• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 2x Hostage Taker
• 1x Lazav, the Multifarious

Artifact (1)

• 1x Amulet of Safekeeping

Instant (3)

• 2x Negate
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Ghostform
• 1x Maximize Altitude

Instant (1)

• 1x Dive Down

Creature (4)

• 1x Diamond Mare
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Kitesail Freebooter
• 1x Siren Stormtamer

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Aether Tunnel
• 1x Drowned Secrets

Artifact (1)

• 1x Desecrated Tomb

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I am interested in finding cool ways to use Lich's Mastery.

The point of this deck is to combo off with Doom Whisperer + Lich's Mastery to surveil through my entire deck, grow some Dimir Spybugs / Thoughtbound Phantasms while doing it, and kill the opponent.

With Doom Whisperer + Lich's Mastery in play, as long as there are 2 cards already in my graveyard, I should be able to pay 2 life and repeatedly surveil my entire deck while exiling my graveyard. This can be done to either get cards I need and/or just grow creatures in play.

The combo is pretty fragile, and it would be exciting to figure out better ways to pull it off. Since the deck can utilize Mastermind's Acquisition, I think there are probably ways to put a bunch of 'one-of' cards to tutor for and ensure you can push through attackers. I put a few ideas in the maybeboard.

There might be other ways to better utilize the combo as well, since it can mill my entire deck without losing the game. One idea is to splash green for Assassin's Trophy and Gaea's Blessing. Or, maybe put a single copy of Nexus of Fate for infinite turns. Something like that.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	10 months
Splash colors	G
Key combos	Doom Whisperer + Lich's Mastery
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 2 Mythic Rares 15 - 8 Rares 19 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	City's Blessing