Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

Gameplan

Drop Liliana early as a 2/3 lifelink body, then flip her into a planeswalker the first time another nontoken creature dies. As a walker she grinds card advantage with +2 discard and reanimates threats with -X, eventually locking the board with her -8 emblem. You play a mono-black attrition/aristocrats midrange game, trading creatures to flip her and refuel from the graveyard.

Key Cards

• Viscera Seer — Free sac outlet to flip Liliana on demand at instant speed.
• Carrion Feeder — Reliable no-mana sacrifice outlet that grows and triggers her transform.
• Gravecrawler — Recurs itself off Zombie synergy to repeatedly feed sac outlets and her flip condition.
• Reanimate — Cheap reanimation that complements her -X and fills the same gameplan.
• Phyrexian Reclamation — Buys back fodder creatures to keep triggering deaths and refueling.
• Sheoldred, the Apocalypse — Punishes opponents while her -X can return Sheoldred from the yard repeatedly.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana (Dark Ritual, Sol Ring) and tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor) to assemble engines faster, plus more free sac outlets to control when she flips. Lean into a reanimation package—Buried Alive, Entomb, Animate Dead—to cheat huge bombs into play early. Top-end can include game-ending reanimation targets and a Razaketh/Sheoldred suite to convert grindy advantage into a hard lock.