Art by Marta Nael
Saved commander deck
Liliana the Repentant
Fill the graveyard rapidly through Liliana's self-mill trigger whenever creatures or planeswalkers enter, then reanimate massive threats and grind opponents out with recursion and aristocrat engines.
Prompt: Liliana the Repentant commander deck
Commander
1 cards
Liliana the Repentant
{1}{B}Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10 cards
Dark Ritual
{B}Instant
Fast mana burst to accelerate high-cost threats or early plays
Crypt Ghast
{3}{B}Creature — Spirit
Doubles mana output from Swamps and provides extort
Bontu's Monument
{3}Legendary Artifact
Reduces creature costs and drains opponents when creatures enter
Songs of the Damned
{B}Instant
Generates massive amounts of mana with a full graveyard
Card Draw
9 cards
Ayara, First of Locthwain
{B}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
Triggers on black creature enters, provides drain and card draw
Grim Haruspex
{2}{B}Creature — Human Wizard
Draws cards whenever nontoken creatures die
Midnight Reaper
{2}{B}Creature — Zombie Knight
Card draw engine whenever nontoken creatures die
Morbid Opportunist
{2}{B}Creature — Human Rogue
Consistent card draw each turn creatures perish
Species Specialist
{2}{B}{B}Creature — Human Warrior
Card draw engine naming Zombies or Humans
Removal
10 cards
Toxic Deluge
{2}{B}Sorcery
Premier low-cost board wipe that bypasses indestructible
Living Death
{3}{B}{B}Sorcery
Mass board wipe and explosive mass reanimation in one
Dismember
{1}{B/P}{B/P}Instant
Flexible cheap removal dealing with most creatures
Threats/Wincons
20 cards
Gravecrawler
{B}Creature — Zombie
Easily recastable creature that triggers Liliana's mill repeatedly
Bloodghast
{B}{B}Creature — Vampire Spirit
Recurs automatically with land drops to fuel mill triggers
Nether Traitor
{B}{B}Creature — Spirit
Recurs from graveyard for one black mana when creatures die
Archfiend of Ifnir
{3}{B}{B}Creature — Demon
Flying threat that pairs well with discard and cyclers
Massacre Wurm
{3}{B}{B}{B}Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
Punishes opposing boards and drains heavily on entry
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
{3}{B}{B}Creature — Zombie
Massive life drain win condition and prime reanimation target
Noxious Gearhulk
{4}{B}{B}Artifact Creature — Construct
Removal, lifegain, and a sizable menace body upon entry
Sepulchral Primordial
{5}{B}{B}Creature — Avatar
Reanimates the best creature from each opponent's graveyard
Sheoldred, Whispering One
{5}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
Continuous creature reanimation and opponent sacrifice engine
Vilis, Broker of Blood
{5}{B}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Demon
High-impact reanimation target providing enormous card draw
Archon of Cruelty
{6}{B}{B}Creature — Archon
Devastating ETB and attack trigger that swings life totals
Ravenous Chupacabra
{2}{B}{B}Creature — Beast Horror
Creature removal on a body that triggers Liliana
Shriekmaw
{4}{B}Creature — Elemental
Evokable removal that triggers ETB mill and dies easily
Grave Titan
{4}{B}{B}Creature — Giant
Generates multiple creature tokens to trigger repeated mill
Abhorrent Overlord
{5}{B}{B}Creature — Demon
Spawns a massive swarm of Harpies based on black devotion
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
{4}{B}{B}Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana
Planeswalker that makes tokens, draws cards, and wipes boards
Liliana of the Dark Realms
{2}{B}{B}Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana
Fetches Swamps, provides removal, and triggers Liliana's mill
Syr Konrad, the Grim
{3}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Human Knight
Deals direct damage whenever creatures are milled or die
Junji, the Midnight Sky
{3}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit
Evasive flyer that reanimates non-Dragons on death
Dauthi Voidwalker
{B}{B}Creature — Dauthi Rogue
Provides graveyard hate and free spell theft on an evasive body
Utility
13 cards
Reanimate
{B}Sorcery
The most efficient single-mana reanimation spell in the format
Animate Dead
{1}{B}Enchantment — Aura
Low-cost reanimation aura to recur milled threats
Victimize
{2}{B}Sorcery
Sacrifices a cheap creature to bring back two big threats
Dread Return
{2}{B}{B}Sorcery
Reanimation spell with flashback that can be cast from the graveyard
Buried Alive
{2}{B}Sorcery
Tutors up three optimal reanimation targets directly into the yard
Entomb
{B}Instant
Instantly puts any creature or planeswalker into the graveyard
Stitcher's Supplier
{B}Creature — Zombie
Cheap creature that enters, mills three, and triggers Liliana for two
Viscera Seer
{B}Creature — Vampire Wizard
Zero-mana sacrifice outlet for scrying and setting up recursion
Carrion Feeder
{B}Creature — Zombie
Sacrifice outlet that grows into a threat while cycling recursion targets
Swiftfoot Boots
{2}Artifact — Equipment
Protects Liliana from removal and grants haste to reanimated threats
Lightning Greaves
{2}Artifact — Equipment
Free equip protection for Liliana and immediate attacks for threats
Altar of Dementia
{2}Artifact
Sacrifice outlet that mills more cards to fuel reanimation
