ARISE. by user9698052

Format: Commander

Commander: Liliana the Repentant

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a classic mono-black reanimator and aristocrats strategy commanded by Liliana the Repentant. The game plan focuses on deploying early self-mill and targeted graveyard tutors like Buried Alive and Entomb to place overwhelming creature threats into the graveyard by Turn 3. On Turn 4, cheap reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Victimize, and Dread Return bring heavy hitters like Archon of Cruelty, Valgavoth, Terror Eater, or Sheoldred, Whispering One onto the battlefield well ahead of their printed mana costs. Once established on Turn 5, the deck applies relentless asymmetric pressure, forcing opponents to discard cards and sacrifice creatures every turn cycle. Win conditions culminate in combat damage paired with massive life swings from Gray Merchant of Asphodel and aristocrat triggers, closing the game around Turn 8. The list excels at creature control and engine resilience but must remain mindful of dedicated graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bad Moon
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Desperate Plea
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Gauntlet of Power
  • 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Lim-Dûl the Necromancer
  • 1 Living End
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Murmuring Volume
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scourge of Nel Toth
  • 1 Sengir, the Dark Baron
  • 1 Severed Strands
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 35 Swamp
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Zombie Master