Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

📖 How to build Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned is a five-mana blue Human Wizard that turns your instants and sorceries into a recursive engine. Spells can't be countered, so your spells resolve no matter what your opponents hold up. Each instant and sorcery in your graveyard also gains flashback, with a cost equal to its mana cost, so you can recast spent spells from the graveyard. The game plan is to cast cheap spells, fill the graveyard, and keep replaying them.

Build around low-cost instants and sorceries, since flashback costs match mana costs and cheap spells are easiest to recast. Card selection and cantrips such as Brainstorm and Frantic Search help fill the graveyard while smoothing your draws. Counterspells like Counterspell, Negate, and Arcane Denial are largely redundant here, because spells can't be countered, so spend those slots on spells that actually do something when they resolve, such as An Offer You Can't Refuse or Cyclonic Rift. Non-spell card advantage like Rhystic Study and Mystic Remora can support the deck while you rebuild your engine.

Watch out for the fact that Lier is a creature, so removal or combat can shut the whole plan down. The abilities only matter when you have instants and sorceries in your graveyard, so a deck with too few of them does very little. Expensive spells are also costly to flashback, since their flashback cost is their full mana cost. Lier does nothing to stop opposing non-spell interaction, so keep backup answers in the deck.

Deck guide written with AI assistance based on the card's rules text.