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Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {3}{U}{U} · Blue commander

Spells can't be countered. Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.
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What Lier, Disciple of the Drowned actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Lier, Disciple of the Drowned deck needs

Plays as spellslinger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Lier, Disciple of the Drowned deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  3. Brainstorm1 mana
  4. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  5. Opt1 mana
  6. Ponder1 mana
  7. Pongify1 mana
  8. Preordain1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  2. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  3. Millikin2 mana
  4. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  5. Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
  6. Fraying Sanity3 mana
  7. Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
  8. Sequestered Stash0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  6. Titan's Presence3 mana
  7. Icy Prison2 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Transmute Artifact2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  8. Muddle the Mixture2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Desynchronization4 mana
  2. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  3. Whelming Wave4 mana
  4. Consuming Tide4 mana
  5. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  6. Evacuation5 mana
  7. Perplexing Test5 mana
  8. Cyclonic Rift2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Rhystic Study3 mana
  6. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Combat Research1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Combos with Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lier, Disciple of the Drowned is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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