Liliana, the Necromancer
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Core Set 2019M19 · #291
- Card type
- Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana
- Rarity
- Mythic rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 5.26 € · ★ 13.30 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Loyalty
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
[+1]: Target player loses 2 life. [−1]: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. [−7]: Destroy up to two target creatures. Put up to two creature cards from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Livia Prima
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2018-07-13
Rulings
For Liliana’s last ability, the creatures you’ll return to the battlefield are chosen after the target creatures are destroyed. No player may take actions between the time you choose two creature cards to return and the time they’re returned. The destroyed cards can be among those returned to the battlefield.
If any abilities trigger on the target creatures being destroyed, those abilities won’t be put onto the stack until after you’ve put creature cards onto the battlefield from graveyards.
In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any permanents you control from Liliana’s third ability that came from other players’ graveyards are exiled.
You may activate Liliana’s last ability without choosing any target creatures. You’ll just put up to two creature cards onto the battlefield from graveyards. However, if you choose any targets and all of those targets become illegal before the ability tries to resolve, the ability won’t resolve and you won’t put any cards onto the battlefield.