MTG Arena - Standard - Lich 

I was the Cavalcade matchup in this video. It's not often you get to play against one of your favorite content creators, just wish it wasn't such a blowout. I knew I had no chance of winning as soon as I got to see Legend's hand. My only hope was to take the Cry of the Carnarium and hope he didn't find the forth land for Ritual. Took a shot to try and dig for a Bedevil to take out the Compass and Lich, but only found the shock. GG

The game three against monored was hilarious. I love seeing monored get their comeuppance.

31:20 Points at zombie knights with menace : "Pretty menacing." You win sir.

that monored conceding after three turns was so satisfying

I hate that this deck has 5 sweepers in it, but I love how thematically awesome it is. The thought of a council of Lichs cleansing battlefields with plague waves is gnarly.

Lich better have my money!! My favourite jank card in MtG at the moment, looking forward to this.

I didn't realize the counter stuck around when those artifacts flipped, that's awesome. Cool deck, thanks

Love this deck!! Immortal Sun is so strong vs Teferi control decks which usually only runs mortify

I see so many players make that mistake with lava coil and similar "if this card would be destroyed, exile it instead" cards. I think the only part they read is the "exile", because I've had way more players than I would think try and lava coil my adanto vanguards. They recognize exile gets around indestructible, but not that it actually has to be destroyed first to get the exile off :P

I love this deck... i've been seen it a little often in the last week for some reason, but i totally approve it. That immortal sun on the first game was a life saver.

Ah.... already have this type of deck. But nice to see more variations of it. Especially from someone who is a better player =O

Man, that was a brutal performance.

Nice. A lot of quick matches. Oh man those matches against Esper and Mono-red were so satisfying to watch. Those Teferis just sitting there doing nothing was so cool.

I would like to see Phyrexian Scriptures here. Make Lich into an artifact, then use another Lich to give the Lich it’s own phylactory.

This may not be the “best” deck but I find it more fun to play than anything else I’ve come across. My version is a little different but I love it enough that I got it in paper to play friends with. Thanks for the vid!

Wish mono could get credit for the sudden rush of the Lich here on RU-vid. Love the deck, wish I had the cards here on Arena.

There are a couple of cards that could improve your deck versus control: Helm of the Host and Phyrexian Scriptures. Scriptures are definitely very slow, but they convert your lich into an artifact, and you can put a phylactery on it, making you having an indestructible artifact with a phylactery on it; Scriptures are also very good versus graveyard-based decks (like Izzet Phoenix or Golgari Reanimator). Helm of the Host is hilarious once you get it spamming liches. I wouldn't recommend more than one of each, though, they are insanely slow. Another relatively decent (and definitely unexpected) artifact to consider is Transmogrification Wand (sp?), which destroys creatures for 1 and puts a 2/4 token instead - you can use it on enemies or your own liches, who don't get destroyed. And Chaos Wand is very nice to fish for counterspells and discards. But those are pretty bad versus aggro, so I would put them into sideboard. Splashing blue and replacing Immortal Sun with Karn and Tezzeret, and adding Quasiduplicate is also a nice way to build around lich. One with the Machine could also give some card draw.

Made a slightly more budget version of this today after watching your video, and I got to say it's so much fun. People just don't know how to deal with the lich!

I ordered four phylactery lichs a few months ago because I wanted to make a black artifact synergy deck. My thought was casting a forebears blade and equipping the lich with it. I'm definitely going to build the deck the way you have it. It just seems so powerful

Lol Aggressive wide merfolk, all in! Gets swept and quits. Yeah...

Man this deck is sick. How does this not see more play? feels like it has a really good matchup against everything that doesn't have exile.

Nice deck!! I like this black decks!

Awesome deck!

wow i played lich artifact deck ages ago ... nice to see some popularity. When i played it i would often use Amaranthine Wall which is indestructible when you pay 2 mana ... so an indestructible lich on an indestructible defender is very satifsfying to say the least.

Phylactery lich is probably my favorite 'bulk' rare ever. I love the card so much, it's flavorful, cool, and creates a really cool interaction for the opponent.

I love this deck!

Loved this

Jeez this deck looks great

Hey, i saw a part of this on stream yesterday! I was wondering why it's so deja vu for me :D

Cool deck.

I play a lich deck every so often, and I cannot tell you how many mono-red players try the lava coil + burn spell to kill it.

Sweet list! Personally I would have to run at least one Helm of the Host.

Hey great video love all your content 👌

I play Lich in almost any black deck. Don't understand why it's not played more, its an easy and extremely powerful combination with something as simple as a Fountain of Renewal.

Hey well done on originality Mogwai

Wow very powerful deck! For another video, can you show us something in Boros? There's a lot of cool things here too (and i need a bit of help to have a nice deck haha). :-)

The only thing you are missing is a Lich Mastery ;-) But this is still a very fun deck!

I have enjoyed playing this deck! Any recommended updates for War of Sparks/current meta?

i ran a deck like this ages ago, but since the addition of allegiance, artifact removal has almost entirely disappeared making lich viable now

The MTG world must always has a lich deck.

First time I'm this early

I'm a simple man; i see mono-black, i like.

i have everything i need for this deck except for josu vess and cabal stronghold, any other cards i could replace them with temporarily?

Why do you not put a stop on your upkeep and use treasure map before drawing?

Could dread shade fit in this deck, maybe if we don't have josu vess?

This is where I really struggle when making decks. If I am looking at my whole card collection I get overwhelmed. I try to parse it down to combos like this, but my brain just doesn't work that way.

Ye boi

Make a deck using Navigator's Ruin.

Power stone shards could be good

Спасибо. Очень полезная информация. Я играю всего неделю, но уже играю твоими черно-белыми вампирами. Большое спасибо. Здоровья тебе!

never use azor gateway on your turn vs esper control deck, they can still let you discard you card @ 10:40

"Lich please" god dammit

looks decentz...

I've never really understood the benefit of Gateway. Feels too sluggish to me and the requirements very specific.

Red player: I play Shock, Lightning Strike, Lava Coil all on Phylactery Lich! LegenVD: Indestructible Red player: HUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! (surrenders)

Does this have a chance in bo3? What would the sideboard look like?

Wouldn't Karn be better than immortal sun since you have so many artifacts?

No Karns?

"lich please" lol honey yasssssssssss honey

Why no karn?

I haven't tested this, but if you play Phyrexian Scriptures, you should be able to make the lich an Artifact, then cast another lich and put a counter on the first artifact Lich :) now no destroy effect of any kind will work on them ;) this play renders cleanising nova 100% useless against the liches

MONO BLACK MAGIC CHANNEL

You sound a bit off. Were you sick? Anyway I know I sound like a broken record but the RDW player not knowing what indestructible is showcases the type of player that plays nothing but RDW.

where's my boy Karn?

Very expensive (a lot mythic cards) and 60% of the cards are gone in fall 2019. Nice deck, but I pass.

Men you need to learn when to loot... if no mana always loot at the end of their turn...

Disappointed karn isn't here

Play in ranked, plz

Since you dumpstered all 6 games how cherry picked are these games? I imagine fairly...

Thumbs down for not using the "Lich Please" name /jk