Card
Lich's Mastery
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}{B}
Hexproof You can't lose the game. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard. When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.
Part of 43 known combos, 6 of them two-card. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DOM · #98
- Cheapest printing
- €0.37
- EDHREC salt
- 0.63
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Hexproof
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Queza, Augur of Agonies, Transcendence, Shabraz, the Skyshark, Feast of Sanity, Horizon Chimera
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Queza, Augur of Agonies, Transcendence, Shabraz, the Skyshark, Feast of Sanity, Horizon Chimera
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Queza, Augur of Agonies, Transcendence, Shabraz, the Skyshark, Feast of Sanity, Horizon Chimera
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Queza, Augur of Agonies, Transcendence, Shabraz, the Skyshark, Feast of Sanity, Horizon Chimera (early with Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Queza, Augur of Agonies, Transcendence, Shabraz, the Skyshark, Feast of Sanity, Horizon Chimera)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
43 known combos, 6 of them two-card.
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse + Lich's Mastery
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Queza, Augur of Agonies + Lich's Mastery
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Transcendence + Lich's Mastery
Produces: Draw the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
If you’re dealt more damage than you have cards to exile, you’ll just exile everything you can. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
While you can’t lose the game, your opponents can still win the game if an effect says so. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
You don’t have to exile all the cards from one place. For example, if a source deals 5 damage to you, you may exile one permanent, two cards from hand, and two cards from your graveyard. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
If you run out of other permanents, cards in hand, and cards in graveyard, you’ll have to exile Lich’s Mastery itself and lose the game. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
While you control Lich’s Mastery, your life total still changes. Lich’s Mastery’s effects don’t replace the life gain or life loss.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast