Card
Varina, Lich Queen
Mana cost {1}{W}{U}{B}
Legendary Creature — Zombie Wizard 4/4
Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life. {2}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · C18 · #48
- Cheapest printing
- €3.33
- EDHREC salt
- 0.44
- Color identity
- Black, Blue, White
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
2 known combos.
- Varina, Lich Queen + Altar of Dementia + Ashnod's Altar + Anointed Procession
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Varina, Lich Queen + Altar of Dementia + Ashnod's Altar + Mondrak, Glory Dominus
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-07-13 · Wizards of the Coast
The number of cards you discard and the amount of life you gain are both equal to the number of Zombies you attack with, even if you draw a different number of cards somehow. - 2018-07-13 · Wizards of the Coast
Varina's first ability counts the number of Zombies you attacked with, even if some of those Zombies leave combat before the triggered ability resolves.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast