Liliana, Heretical Stealer

Commander / EDH Control Discard Mono-Black Necropotence Reanimator

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Land (33)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 19x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tomb Fortress
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland

Card Draw (7)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Skullclamp

Graveyard Recursion (6)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Finisher (2)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Tutor (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Utility (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Poxwalkers
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Street Wraith

Ramp (9)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Discard Payoff (6)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Waste Not

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Discard (9)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Liliana's Triumph
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Vindictive Lich

Board Wipe (6)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Removal (3)

• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Snuff Out

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Other (137)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Arterial Flow
• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Augur of Skulls
• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bad Deal
• 1x Banshee of the Dread Choir
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Blood on the Snow
• 1x Bloodhusk Ritualist
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Cabal Conditioning
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Coffin Queen
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Creeping Dread
• 1x Cruel Revival
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Defile
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Dreamstealer
• 1x Endless Obedience
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Fraying Omnipotence
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Guul Draz Specter
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Inevitable End
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Liliana's Spoils
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Necromancer's Stockpile
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Necromantic Summons
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Oath of Liliana
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Order of Yawgmoth
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Pox
• 1x Profane Transfusion
• 1x Professor Onyx
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Rise from the Grave
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Scepter of Fugue
• 1x Scythe Specter
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Silent Specter
• 1x Skullcage
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Tasigur's Cruelty
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Tendrils of Corruption
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x The Elderspell
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x The Rack
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• 1x Tymaret Calls the Dead
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Unnerve
• 1x Vicious Rumors
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Wheel of Torture
• 1x Words of Waste
• 1x Wound Reflection
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

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This deck is the first in my series of Baby-Planeswalker-Planeswalker decks.

For Liliana you obviously have a discard/graveyard stealing subtheme. So the idea here is to set up some discard payoffs and some enchantments and eventually ping them down through various discard effects. After a while their graveyards will have loads of creatures to steal, so thats when you start putting a lock on the game.

Liliana, Heretical Healer   is not that easy to flip with this setup, so one could argue that a commander like Tinybones, Trinket Thief is a much better choice here. But he just provokes too much hate at the table for me.

I'm gonna playtest the deck a lot the upcoming weeks and update it as i go along.

Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #8 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Discard 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 3 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.26
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Emblem Liliana, Waker of the Dead, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B