Is Liliana's Contract good in Commander?

Liliana's Contract in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Liliana's Contract draws four cards for four mana and staples an alternate win condition onto the board — the life loss is real but the card advantage is immediate. In any black deck running four or more Demons, Ardyn, the Usurper turns the win clause from a novelty into a genuine threat that opponents have to answer.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Ardyn, the Usurper

62.5% of decks · synergy 0.60

Ardyn, the Usurper floods the board with Demon tokens, and Liliana's Contract sees those tokens as legitimate win-condition fuel — hit four Demons in play and the Contract closes the game on the spot.

02

Be'lakor, the Dark Master

57.8% of decks · synergy 0.56

Be'lakor, the Dark Master cares deeply about Demons entering and attacking, so Liliana's Contract does double duty: it refuels a hand depleted by Be'lakor's aggressive gameplan while dangling an instant-win for anyone who assembles enough Demons to meet the threshold.

03

Raphael, Fiendish Savior

37.2% of decks · synergy 0.36

Raphael, Fiendish Savior builds a critical mass of Demons and Devils, which means Liliana's Contract's four-draw lands when it matters most and the alternate win condition is never far out of reach.

04

Liliana, Heretical Healer

22.0% of decks · synergy 0.20

Liliana, Heretical Healer is the thematic lock — her name is literally on the card — and her reanimation gameplan keeps enough Demons cycling through the battlefield that Liliana's Contract becomes a realistic closer rather than a flavor include.

05

Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.18

Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire tutors relentlessly, so Liliana's Contract slots in as both a card-draw payoff you can find on demand and a win condition that punishes opponents for letting your Demon count climb unchecked.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Liliana's Contract is a Commander card through and through — four mana for four cards is a reasonable rate in a 100-card singleton format, and the alternate win condition scales with the Demon-tribal density that Commander naturally rewards. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, the card is technically legal but sees no meaningful play: five-mana enchantments that don't immediately affect the board are a non-starter in those formats, and the Demon win condition requires a board state those formats never sustain long enough to assemble. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander exception where the card could show up, particularly under a Demon-flavored planeswalker, but the cardpool is narrow enough that Liliana's Contract remains a niche include there too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Liliana's Contract isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the live number. Historically it has sat in the $2–5 range — cheap enough that any Demon-tribal Commander deck has little reason to leave it out.