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Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Foundations
Price
$15.10
EDHREC rank
#753
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Liliana, Dreadhorde General card art
Liliana, Dreadhorde General lands and immediately starts taxing your opponents' boards — every creature they lose becomes a card you draw, and her minus ability clears the way without requiring attacks. Six mana is real, but the payoff is a planeswalker that takes over games on its own; shells like Carth the Lion that stack loyalty counters push her ultimate into range fast enough to justify the cost, and even Nadir Kraken decks that want incremental card draw find her passive immediately relevant.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Carth the Lion

Carth the Lion

73.0% of decks · synergy 0.68

Carth the Lion is the most natural home — his passive adds an extra loyalty counter whenever Liliana, Dreadhorde General enters or activates, accelerating her toward the six-loyalty ultimate that makes every opponent sacrifice their entire board in just a few turns.

02

Liliana, Heretical Healer

75.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

Liliana, Heretical Healer decks run every Liliana planeswalker they can find, and Liliana, Dreadhorde General earns her slot as the highest-impact finisher in the package — her draw trigger and recursive ultimate close games that the earlier Lilianas set up.

03

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

48.0% of decks · synergy 0.34

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER runs black's most powerful individual threats, and Liliana, Dreadhorde General fits as a repeatable sacrifice-and-draw engine that pressures boards while the commander builds toward lethal.

04
Teysa Karlov

Teysa Karlov

38.0% of decks · synergy 0.32

Teysa Karlov doubles death triggers, which means every creature that dies under Liliana, Dreadhorde General's watch draws two cards instead of one — that synergy alone justifies inclusion in any Teysa list.

05
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

35.7% of decks · synergy 0.31

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver floods the board with decayed Zombie tokens that sacrifice themselves, and Liliana, Dreadhorde General converts each of those automatic deaths into card draw, turning the deck's core mechanic into a draw engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Liliana, Dreadhorde General is most at home — multiplayer means more creatures dying more often, which turns her passive draw trigger into a firehose rather than a trickle. In Pioneer and Modern she sees fringe play in midrange black shells, but six mana is a steep ask in those formats and she's usually outpaced by cheaper, more focused threats. Legacy and Vintage have access to her but rarely want a six-mana planeswalker when faster win conditions exist. Oathbreaker is a real second home if she's your oathbreaker, since her ultimate maps cleanly onto a one-shot board clear that ends games on the spot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

763 decks
Nadir KrakenLiliana, Dreadhorde GeneralAshnod's Altar

Nadir KrakenLiliana, Dreadhorde GeneralAshnod's Altar

Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Near-infinite colorless mana; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos together cost a fraction of Liliana, Dreadhorde General and replicate her sacrifice-punishment axis, though you lose the card draw trigger and the built-in removal of her minus ability. If the draw engine is what you're after, Midnight Reaper fills that role cheaply but only triggers on your own creatures and has no board impact beyond that.

Price Context

Current price

$15.10 mid tier

At $15.10, Liliana, Dreadhorde General sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a real slot commitment, but reasonable for a planeswalker with this much raw power. Demand from Commander keeps the floor stable, and she's seen enough reprints that a sudden spike is unlikely.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.