Mono-black graveyard aristocrats that use Liliana the Repentant to turn every creature or planeswalker entering into mill two, filling the yard with bodies to reanimate and recur. Cheap self-mill creatures, recursive threats and sacrifice outlets feed a loop of creatures dying and coming back. Each death drains opponents through death-trigger payoffs, and Liliana's one-time exhaust ability returns the best creature or planeswalker from the graveyard late in the game. How it wins: The deck grinds opponents down with repeated drain triggers from creatures dying and re-entering, finished by Gray Merchant swings or the Forsaken Miner sacrifice loops that produce unlimited death and drain triggers. Key roles: - Self-mill engine: Cards that mill on entering, on death or each turn stack with Liliana the Repentant's mill-two trigger to stock the graveyard with reanimation targets and turn on delirium and graveyard-size payoffs (Stitcher's Supplier, Undead Butler, Overlord of the Balemurk). - Reanimation and recursion: Spells and enchantments pull big or utility creatures back from the yard, while self-returning creatures keep coming back for free, and each return re-triggers Liliana the Repentant's mill (Animate Dead, Living Death, Bloodghast). - Sacrifice outlets and fodder: Free or mana-producing sacrifice outlets and edict creatures turn spare bodies into mana, cards or removal while keeping the death count high (Phyrexian Tower, Carrion Feeder, Warren Soultrader). - Death-trigger drain: Payoffs convert every creature dying into life loss for opponents, and devotion drain finishes games (Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist, Gray Merchant of Asphodel). - Treasure-crime loop: Pitiless Plunderer pays for Forsaken Miner's return, and the Scavenger's Talent level 2 mill trigger targets an opponent, which counts as a crime. Paired with a free sacrifice outlet, this creates an infinite loop of deaths, mill and drain (Forsaken Miner, Pitiless Plunderer, Scavenger's Talent). - Graveyard-scaling and mill-as-pressure: Some threats grow with graveyard size or turn life loss into opponent mill, and tutors find whichever piece is missing (Golbez, Clad In Darkness, The Master of Lake-town, Demonic Counsel).

Liliana the Repentant decklist

• Accursed Marauder
• Angel of Suffering
• Animate Dead
• Arcane Signet
• Barrowgoyf
• Beseech the Queen
• Blood Artist
• Bloodghast
• Boggart Trawler
• Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• Buried Alive
• Carrion Feeder
• Cavalier of Night
• Chthonian Nightmare
• Culling the Weak
• Dark Confidant
• Dark Matter Manipulator
• Dark Ritual
• Dawnhand Dissident
• Defile
• Demonic Counsel
• Duress
• Feed the Swarm
• Fell the Profane
• Fleshbag Marauder
• Forsaken Miner
• Golbez, Clad In Darkness
• Gravecrawler
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Greedy Freebooter
• Head of the Hunt
• Hellish Rebuke
• Illicit Masquerade
• Jet Medallion
• Liliana, Untouched by Death
• Living Death
• Malakir Rebirth
• Mogis's Marauder
• Out of the Tombs
• Overlord of the Balemurk
• Palantír of Orthanc
• Phyrexian Tower
• Pitiless Plunderer
• Plaguecrafter
• Reanimate
• Ripples of Undeath
• Rise of the Dark Realms
• Rise of the Deathbringer
• Scavenger's Talent
• Skullclamp
• 30× Snow-Covered Swamp
• Sol Ring
• Springleaf Drum
• Spymaster's Vault
• Stitcher's Supplier
• Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• The Master of Lake-town
• Toxic Deluge
• Troop of Ponies
• Umbral Collar Zealot
• Undead Butler
• Vengeful Bloodwitch
• Victimize
• Warren Soultrader
• Will of the Abzan
• Wishclaw Talisman
• Withering Torment
• Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
• Yawgmoth's Will
• Zulaport Cutthroat