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Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric // Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana
Lifelink Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
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“Sacrifice and reanimate your way to victory with a planeswalker that never stops coming back.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm, Combo
Reanimator, Aristocrats, Sacrifice, Graveyard
Strategy
Liliana, Heretical Healer is your gateway to a grindy, self-mill graveyard strategy that rewards you for filling your own bin. The front side is a lifelink body that flips into a powerful planeswalker the moment a creature dies—which happens constantly in a sacrifice-heavy shell. Once she transforms, you've got repeatable discard and creature reanimation, letting you recycle your best threats and turn your graveyard into a second hand.
Build around sacrifice outlets and creatures with death triggers to flip Liliana reliably and enable value loops. Cards like Zulaport Cutthroat, Viscera Seer, and free sac outlets turn every death into incremental advantage while filling your graveyard. Your win condition is grinding out the table through repeated reanimation, aristocrat triggers, and eventually overwhelming them with a horde of recursed creatures or commander damage from a pumped-up Liliana.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Use budget creatures with death triggers like Zulaport Cutthroat and Nested Shambler instead of pricier cards; Viscera Seer is an affordable sac outlet, and Dark Ritual ramps you cheaply into early plays.
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