Liliana, Heretical Healer - Demondogpile

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It's mostly a midrange bucket of demons with some thematic considerations. I try to make use of Lili's +2 via some reanimation and madness shenanigans, but those aspects feel pretty weak overall. I rarely dig up anything with her -X, and just about never hit her ult.

Liliana, Heretical Healer

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General

1 Liliana, Heretical Healer

Creatures

1 Nightshade Assassin

1 Withered Wretch

1 Bloodghast

1 Asylum Visitor

1 Fleshbag Marauder

1 Merciless Executioner

1 Ophiomancer

1 Big Game Hunter

1 Abyssal Persecutor

1 Solemn Simulacrum

1 Disciple of Bolas

1 Crypt Ghast

1 Bloodgift Demon

1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel

1 Gorgon Recluse

1 Kagemaro, First to Suffer

1 Archfiend of Ifnir

1 Reaper from the Abyss

1 Kothophed, Soul Hoarder

1 Xathrid Demon

1 Demonlord Belzenlok

1 Archfiend of Spite

1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Artifacts

1 Everflowing Chalice

1 Sol Ring

1 Skullclamp

1 Thought Vessel

1 Charcoal Diamond

1 Jet Medallion

1 Mind Stone

1 Coldsteel Heart

1 Lightning Greaves

1 Unstable Obelisk

1 Whip of Erebos

Enchantments

1 Animate Dead

1 Necromancy

1 Withering Wisps

1 Phyrexian Arena

1 Liliana's Contract

1 The Eldest Reborn

Sorceries

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Murderous Compulsion

1 Black Sun's Zenith

1 Dead of Winter

1 Victimize

1 Damnation

1 Mutilate

1 Living Death

1 Promise of Power

1 Beseech the Queen

Instants

1 Erebos's Intervention

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Shred Memory

1 Liliana's Triumph

1 Sudden Spoiling

1 Crypt Incursion

1 Wretched Confluence

1 Dark Withering

Planeswalker

1 Ugin, the Ineffable

Lands

1 Arcane Lighthouse

1 Myriad Landscape

1 Barren Moor

1 Volrath's Stronghold

1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

1 Tectonic Edge

1 Mouth of Ronom

1 Phyrexian Tower

1 Bojuka Bog

1 Scrying Sheets

1 Witch's Cottage

29 Snow-covered Swamp

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The deck is a little heavy on the wipes (there are quite a few and it's likely unnecessary) and removal right now, and has some really terrible jank meant to synergize with Lili's +2 (like Dark Withering). Some lands are holdovers from previous mono-black decks, and are underperforming (like Arcane Lighthouse). Liliana's Triumph|PWAR is not my favourite, except I have the full-art promo and it is a Liliana deck. Finally, there's a pretty big amount of graveyard hate in the deck; since we generally +2 Lili, it's good to disable other people's reanimation/dredge strategies.

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2020/04/30 - My ultra casual group felt pretty oppressed by removal packages, and some cards were really underperforming, so...
-Murderous Compulsion
-Black Sun's Zenith
-Mutilate
-Dark Withering
-Nightshade Assassin
-The Eldest Reborn
-Asylum Visitor
+Josu Vess, Lich Knight
+Vampire Nighthawk
+Sangromancer
+Plaguecrafter
+Dread Presence
+Rimebound Dead
+Liliana of the Dark Realms

Some theme-y cards like Josu and find-some-swamps (or Witch's Cottage) Liliana, and some draw/value/defensive inclusions, along with Plaguecrafter, who self-starts with Lili.