Lich-Knights' Conquest
Sorcery
Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $1.34
- EDHREC rank
- #2282
Lich-Knights' Conquest converts your sacrificed permanents into an equal number of free artifacts, creatures, or planeswalkers pulled directly from your graveyard — the swap is the point, and the cost is real: you have to sacrifice at least two nontoken permanents to get anything back. In token-heavy aristocrats builds, especially Totentanz, Swarm Piper, where Rats die by the handful, this is a mass reanimation spell stapled to a sacrifice outlet, and that combination is absurdly efficient at four mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Totentanz, Swarm Piper
Totentanz, Swarm Piper floods the board with Rat tokens that die constantly, and Lich-Knights' Conquest turns that stream of deaths into immediate reanimation — sacrificing tokens to return your actual threats from the graveyard is exactly what the deck wants to be doing on any given turn.
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch generates tokens on opponents' turns and rewards sacrifice with card draw, so Lich-Knights' Conquest slots in as a payoff that converts the token surplus into reanimated heavy hitters without missing a beat in the sacrifice chain.
The Mycotyrant
The Mycotyrant scales on creatures dying in your graveyard and produces Fungus tokens proportionally, giving Lich-Knights' Conquest a steady supply of sacrifice fodder that converts into permanent recursion while simultaneously deepening the graveyard count The Mycotyrant cares about.
Gyome, Master Chef
Gyome, Master Chef creates Food tokens at pace and thrives in a sacrifice loop, and Lich-Knights' Conquest gives the deck a high-ceiling turn where all those Foods become reanimated artifacts and creatures instead of just life gain.
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine wants to sacrifice Angels to power its own ability, and Lich-Knights' Conquest fills the graveyard back up — sacrificing token Angels to reanimate the expensive ones you spent earlier is the kind of recursive engine Shilgengar decks grind opponents out with.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Lich-Knights' Conquest is legal in every major constructed format but sees virtually no competitive play outside Commander — four mana at sorcery speed for a conditional reanimation effect is too slow and narrow for Legacy or Vintage, where faster graveyard engines dominate. Modern and Pioneer have the same problem: the nontoken permanent sacrifice requirement is a steep cost in formats where board states are smaller and opponents answer threats before you can build to a critical mass. Commander is where this card actually lives, because the 100-card singleton format naturally produces deep graveyards, high-value permanents worth recurring, and token-generating sacrifice synergies that make the cost trivial. In Oathbreaker it can function similarly if the planeswalker shell supports aristocrats themes, but the 20-life format moves faster than Commander and dilutes the payoff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.34 cheap tier
At $1.34, Lich-Knights' Conquest sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — low enough that there's no budget barrier to picking it up for any sacrifice build that wants it. Demand is niche enough that the price is unlikely to spike dramatically, but in the decks where it works, it more than earns its slot.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Totentanz, Swarm Piper
- Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
- The Mycotyrant
- Gyome, Master Chef
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.