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Underrealm Lich

Creature — Zombie Elf Shaman3 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana

Every draw becomes a dig: look at three, keep one, and feed the graveyard the other two. That single substitution rewires two axes of a deck at once, because the yard it fills is not an incidental byproduct but the second half of the engine. Each card you draw stocks the graveyard two cards deep, so delve, escape, reanimation, and flashback all fill as fast as your hand does. The redirection is not optional and not once per turn: extra draws from other sources also become forced top-three digs, which is the real subtlety of the design. Because the replacement swaps the draw entirely for a look-and-mill, you cannot deck yourself out while this is on the battlefield; the empty-library loss trigger simply never fires, and instead the library becomes fuel to be spent freely. The more card advantage you generate, the deeper you carve into your own deck, which pushes toward treating the graveyard, not the hand, as the actual resource pool. The self-protection clause keeps the body around long enough for any of that to matter: four life for indestructible is a steep toll, but it beats nearly every removal spell that does not exile, and because the ability taps the creature, you spend it as a defensive reflex rather than a way to force damage through. The 4/3 frame is almost beside the point; what this card is doing lives entirely in the rules of drawing, not in combat.

Underrealm Lich (clu)
CLU · #215mythic
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Normal: $7.84
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Oracle Text

Rules text

If you would draw a card, instead look at the top three cards of your library, then put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Pay 4 life: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.
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

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