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Liliana, Waker of the Dead
Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana
mythic
+1: Each player discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life. −3: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard. −7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste."
Loyalty: 4
Semantic Tags
Attacks quickly and deals damage efficiently. Includes haste, double strike, first strike, prowess, and cards that grant these.
Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Forces opponents to discard cards from their hand. Targeted discard, mass discard, and discard-or-pay effects.
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.
Planeswalker-heavy strategy — proliferate, Doubling Season, planeswalker synergies.
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Printings (6)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos#85936 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Core Set 2021#108 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Core Set 2021 Promos#108p | mythic | · | · | · |
| Core Set 2021 Promos#108s | mythic | · | · | · |
| Core Set 2021#297 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Core Set 2021#282 | mythic | · | · | · |
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
A player who has a card in hand can't choose to lose 3 life instead of discarding a card.
The value of X is determined only as Liliana's second ability resolves. Once that happens, the value of X won't change later in the turn even if the number of cards in your graveyard changes.
As Liliana's first ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then each other player in turn order does the same. Then all the chosen cards are discarded at the same time. Finally, each opponent who couldn't discard a card loses 3 life.
If you have no cards in hand, you just don't discard anything. You don't lose 3 life. Other players still discard if able.
In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any permanents you control from Liliana's emblem are exiled.
Creatures put onto the battlefield with Liliana's emblem gain haste indefinitely.