Based on CommanderFun's deck The Lich, just updated with newer cards and a few other tricks.

Powerful but fragile control deck built around Lich and Lich's Mastery. Also a low-key zombie tribal theme. Keep drawing cards, build up a zombie army to draw more cards, and go nuts with Necropotence and Ad Nauseam. Many ways to win, many ways to die. Be prepared for both cases.

Commander

Lich combos

God Mode combos

  • Lich + Delaying Shield - Avoid sacing permanents by taking life loss instead.
  • Solemnity + Phyrexian Unlife - Take all the damage, sans the poison counters.
  • Delaying Shield + Solemnity - Ruling from Gatherer: If a replacement effect (putting counters on Delaying Shield) allows a player to modify or replace an event (taking damage) by putting counters on an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land, that player may apply that replacement effect. Counters won’t be put on the object, but if the original event is entirely replaced, the original event won’t happen.
  • Soul Echo + Delaying Shield - As long as one counter is on Soul Echo, you can have Delaying Shield trigger first to prevent echo counters from being removed. Soul Echo can also help prevent you from losing the game if Lich gets bounced back to your hand, gets exiled, or an opponent takes control of it from you.
  • Solemnity + Glacial Chasm - Originally I used Glacial Chasm to help get my life total closer to zero while giving myself protection from damage, but there's a better usage when combined with Solemnity. Play the Chasm after you cast Solemnity so no age counters would be put on Chasm. You'll be unable to attack with creatures, but you'll have invulnerability from damage while having lots of time to build up an army or reach for your wincons.
  • Solitary Confinement + Necropotence - Give yourself Shroud and God Mode. As long as you have cards to feed SC, almost nothing will touch you.

Single card functions

  • Elixir of Immortality - Your 1up lifeline. Draw cards with any of the Lich effects, plus recycle your graveyard back into your library to start the drawing process all over again!
  • Platinum Angel - Trust me, there's a lot of ways to lose the game, and tons of it are in this deck. This angel's got your back in such cases.
  • Omniscience - When you've got lots of cards (or your library for that matter) in your hand, there's nothing stopping you from casting Repay in Kind and countering any and all responses to it with Forbid.
  • Forbid - Reusable counterspell. Keep feeding your hand with card draws to keep the counterspell machinegun going.

Suggestions

Updates Add

OUT - Cruel Bargain - Stunning Reversal

IN - Rhystic Study - Read the Runes

I swapped out two cards for better card draw (and Stunning Reversal was too situational to be useful, even when coming back from losing). I'm familiar with the major draw power of Rhystic Study in big multiplayer EDH games, so I felt it deserves a place in the deck that needs it the most. Read the Runes also gets the drawing going if I'm stuck not doing enough of it, plus it's a sac outlet for Necropotence once it does its job.

And with that, I'm finalizing the deck. As I can see, this is the best version of the zombie/lich deck I have envisioned (without breaking into Alpha-Beta dual lands and other huge money cards). I couldn't be any prouder of making this deck here along side making this deck physically. Of course new cards are always coming out every few months, so things may change. Thanks everyone for your help with making a really fun, yet still competitive deck for Commander EDH!

Next day EDIT:

OUT - Nimbus Maze - Temple of Deceit - Sunken Ruins - Concealed Courtyard - Dromar's Charm - Dimir Signet

IN - x2 Swamp - x1 Plains - x1 Island - Sphinx's Revelation - Dimir Machinations

Had to take out a few non-basics to maximize Land Tax's yield. The mana curve is pretty good without too many dual lands plus Chromatic Lantern is still there. Revelation is great card draw combo'd with the liches, and the Transmute ability from Machinations is a great tutor for the key enchantment combo pieces in this deck. Okay, for real this time, DONE. XD

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49% Casual

51% Competitive

Top Ranked
  • Achieved #31 position overall 5 years ago
Date added 5 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

11 - 0 Mythic Rares

50 - 0 Rares

18 - 0 Uncommons

8 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.31
Tokens Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Knight 2/2 B
Folders Commander, NEWER EDH DECKS (2018), Varina, Likes, #EDH, EDH, Decks to try, I really love this D, liek, Nette Ideen
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