Liliana's Scorn
Sorcery
Destroy target creature. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Liliana, Death Mage, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Core Set 2021
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #21506
Liliana's Scorn clears a creature and pitches a Zombie to the graveyard in one shot — that two-for-one at four mana is the whole pitch. It's a clean include anywhere Liliana, Heretical Healer or a Zombie-matters engine wants bodies in the bin, and a liability everywhere else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Liliana, Heretical Healer
Liliana, Heretical Healer wants Zombies entering and leaving the graveyard to trigger her flip and fuel recursion loops, and Liliana's Scorn delivers both a removal target handled and a Zombie in the bin simultaneously — exactly the kind of incidental setup her engine demands.
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 |
In Commander, Liliana's Scorn earns its slot only in dedicated Zombie or Liliana tribal builds — the graveyard rider is irrelevant without payoffs, and four mana for a single-target kill is overcosted in open competition. In Modern and Pioneer, the card sees essentially no play; Fatal Push, Path to Exile, and Murder do the same job cheaper and without the conditional upside. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all at this cost. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where a Liliana planeswalker at the helm makes the Zombie clause genuinely relevant, but even there the bar is high.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Liliana's Scorn sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb — narrow tribal utility and stiff competition from cheaper removal keep demand low. Pick it up freely for the right Zombie build, but don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Liliana, Heretical Healer
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.