Lich's Mastery Control cEDH

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper)

ThunderSpawn

Land (32)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Supreme Verdict

Instant (19)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Intervention Pact
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Stunning Reversal
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (12)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Felidar Sovereign
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
• 1x Phage the Untouchable
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Zur the Enchanter *f-etch*

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Gideon of the Trials

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Island Sanctuary
• 1x Lich's Mastery
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Transcendence
• 1x Words of Worship

Artifact (12)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Tired of Losing games? Then do I have the deck for you!

The deck is focused around getting a Lich's Mastery into play and abusing some lifegain and lose the game effects to generate a large card advantage to eventually pull ahead and win the game. The card literally says we cant lose, how did wizards print this??

Gameplan

The focus of the deck is to get Lich's Mastery in play and the deck has several ways to find it, and the ability to cast it before turn 6. But what do we do after we have it in play? Well the deck plays some very obvious win cons like:

• Approach of the Second Sun
• Aetherflux Reservoir
• Felidar Sovereign
• Phage the Untouchable

After we have our Lich's Mastery in play we are able to pull super far ahead, using a couple sweepers to make sure we dont get attacked down and then leveraging some life gain to draw into our win cons. Until we can assemble all of this we play a decent stax control game to slow down the table.

Tutors

All the tutors are fairly obvious, usually we grab a Lich's Mastery but if we already have it we can get some interaction or find a win con whatever we need.

• Demonic Tutor
• Diabolic Tutor
• Idyllic Tutor
• Enlightened Tutor
• Mystical Tutor
• Vampiric Tutor
• Academy Rector
• Zur the Enchanter

What if we die?

Don't worry we won't! In case someone decides to ruin the fun and try to remove Lich's Mastery we have plenty of ways to stay alive, as well as other combos to stop us from dying.

Angel's Grace Stifle Trickbind Stunning Reversal We can cast these in response to the trigger to stop us from losing, also very good against Thassa's Oracle.

Mirage Mirror This can copy Lich's Mastery in response so the copy will stifle the other ones dying trigger. Useful if they happen to have an enchantment sweeper.

Sundial of the Infinite Just a spicy card in general, but extra utility in keeping us alive.

Gideon of the Trials Platinum Angel Just the same effect on different permanent types to stick around after a sweeper.

What if we dont have Lich's Mastery?

We also run some cheaper enchantments that also do a very good job of keeping us alive.

Authority of the Consuls and Blind Obedience do a good job making sure we don't get attacked down with haste creatures when we least expect it. Island Sanctuary, Ghostly Prison and Propaganda also help mitigate damage we take from creatures.

Once we have 0 life Phyrexian Unlife means we don't take damage anymore, and if we have Lich's Mastery or Solemnity we can't lose the game from infect.

Solitary Confinement is insane if we have a Lich's Mastery in play, since our commander Oloro, Ageless Ascetic will keep drawing us cards to discard to it and we cant take any damage so all the downsides are gone.

How we abuse Lich's Mastery

All we need to do is gain life, just in our command zone we gain 2 life a turn, so were already drawing 3 cards a turn. Authority of the Consuls, Soul's Attendant and Soul Warden all gain a life whenever a creature ETB's which can start add up really quick, might be worth running a cheap token generator abuse this ourselves.

Kunoros, Hound of Athreos and Kambal, Consul of Allocation both act as hate bears and life gain sources functioning as 2 different roles.

Words of Worship is a heck of a card, everytime we draw we can pay to instead draw 5 cards. This card can get out of hand very quickly.

Transcendence basically reads whenever we take 1 damage, draw 2 cards, if that's not value I don't know what is.

And lastly we get to play all of the pacts, Intervention Pact, Pact of Negation and Slaughter Pact and we don't have to pay the cost on upkeep which feels really good.

As of right now the deck is still a work and progress, the Average cmc is still very high at 2.6 and I'd like to bring it down below 2 eventually as I play more with deck and see what cards we don't need. Obviously the deck is nowhere close to being actually competitive and is more just for fun but I'd still like to see how far I can push Lich's Mastery. If you have any suggestions for cards you think would be better or some cards I missed leave a comment below!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.68
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Gideon of the Trials, Treasure