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Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard3 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Where flashback normally bolts a one-shot exile onto each card as a printed cost, this hands that same exile-and-cast contract to every instant and sorcery in the yard at once, each at its printed mana cost with no discount. The exile still fires: each spell resolves once from the graveyard and is gone, so the reward is a whole second deck's worth of one-time casts, not an infinite loop. That distinction is what keeps the engine honest; it wants a graveyard stuffed with high-impact spells rather than a single sweeper to grind. The quieter, meaner line is the first one. Making spells uncounterable is symmetric and unconditional, so it costs you your own countermagic, but the trade guarantees your recursion resolves on the stack and strips a control opponent of the one tool that could interrupt a resolved-spell chain. That is the tension the design leans on: you surrender the ability to say no in exchange for everything you cast, and recast, landing. The 3/4 body is nearly beside the point, a wizard durable enough to survive a turn and keep dealing. The genuine catch is tempo: it does nothing the turn it lands unless a yard already exists to plunder, so the whole package asks you to fill the graveyard aggressively long before this ever hits the table, and punishes a strategy that spends its early turns hoarding resources instead of spending them.

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned (sld)
SLD · #2350mythic
Pricing
Normal: $5.45
Foil: $7.98
Oracle Text

Rules text

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.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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