Lich's Mastery EDH

Commander / EDH Casual Combo Jank Lifegain

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Land (38)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 5x Plains
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Hallowed Burial
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Obzedat's Aid
• 1x Urza's Ruinous Blast
• 1x Windfall

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Gideon of the Trials
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Instant (17)

• 1x Batwing Brume
• 1x Chance for Glory
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Intervention Pact
• 1x Negate
• 1x Out of Bounds
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Sanguine Sacrament
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tale's End
• 1x Utter End

Artifact (14)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Empyrial Plate
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Tainted Sigil
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Celestial Mantle
• 1x Lich's Mastery
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Words of Worship

Commanders (2)

Creature (13)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Elite Arcanist
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Master of Predicaments
• 1x Netherborn Phalanx
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Restoration Specialist
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Skirge Familiar

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This deck is built around the mechanics of Lich's Mastery. Once this deck gets going, you'll find yourself drawing your whole deck and shrugging off 'lose the game' triggers like it's nothing. You basically turn into a god.

The commanders were chosen for colour identity and card draw. This helps for finding Lich's Mastery. There's also Enlightened Tutor, Diabolic Tutor, Netherborn Phalanx and other draw to dig it out.

Stifle can be a pretty important card in this deck. It stops the 'lose the game' trigger from Lich's Mastery if someone plays Bane of Progress or something like that. It also can stop the trigger that makes you exile your stuff when you lose life.
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Some combos that are possible with Lich's Mastery out:

Elite Arcanist + Final Fortune = Infinite turns. (Isochron Scepter is better but I despise that card, so I try not to play it)
Alhammarret's Archive = When you gain life, gain twice that much and draw twice THAT many cards. 5 life = 20 cards.
Intervention Pact = Save yourself some damage and draw some cards, with no need to pay the upkeep trigger. Pact of Negation is also good.
Words of Worship = When you draw a card, you can pay 1 to draw 4 more cards. You can do this as many times as you like.
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So what do you do with your deck in your hand?
Skirge Familiar can help.
Discard all but Alhammarret's Archive, Elixir of Immortality and Exsanguinate.
You should probably have at least 50 mana. Play the Elixir and the Archive.
Cast Exsanguinate with X=40. After it resolves, you have a trigger to draw at least 120 cards because of the Archive.
Respond to the trigger by shuffling your graveyard (including Exsanguinate) into your library.
Draw your whole deck again.
Repeat.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.29
Tokens	Emblem Gideon of the Trials, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Lich