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Liliana's Contract

Enchantment3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Two cards stapled into one enchantment, and the join is the whole pitch. The enters-the-battlefield half is a fair-rate refill: four cards for four life paid straight off your total, a Black draw spell that charges you in life rather than asking you to sacrifice a permanent. The upkeep half is an alternate win condition that asks for something almost no deck assembles incidentally: four Demons, all with different names, alive at the start of your turn. That gap between the two effects is the design's honesty. The card never demands you chase the win; it pays for itself as a draw effect whether the second clause ever resolves, so the Demon-collecting becomes upside rather than a tax. Alternate-win enchantments usually fail because the conditional dangles uselessly until you commit your whole deck to it. This one sidesteps the trap by making the floor genuinely playable on its own terms, which is the right way to price an alternate-win line: the climb to four named Demons stays a deckbuilding puzzle you opt into, not a liability you carry while you draw your cards. Among build-around win conditions, it belongs with the ones that reward tribal commitment without punishing you for falling short, the rare alternate-victory card that earns its slot even when you never spell out the four names.

Liliana's Contract (sld)
SLD · #161★rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.57
Foil: $5.76
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
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
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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