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Nefarious Lich - Enchantment

Odyssey · 2001

Market Prices

$2.29median

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Legality

PremodernLEGAL
Full Scryfall Data
Odyssey{B}{B}{B}{B}

Nefarious Lich

Enchantment

If damage would be dealt to you, exile that many cards from your graveyard instead. If you can't, you lose the game. If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Printings & Editions

Premodern-legal editions of Nefarious Lich — old-border printings plus any period-appropriate foil promos (Arena/Judge, through Scourge). Hover to preview an edition on the card; click to select it.

Old-border editions + pre-Scourge promo foils (Arena/Judge). Modern-frame reprints (8th Edition onward) exist but are not period-appropriate printings.

Critical Rulings

"This card will not prevent you from losing the game due to zero or less life."

— 2004-10-04

"If you were going to gain life and you also have a replacement that can turn card drawing into life gain on the battlefield, you can gain life by using the Lich to turn the original life gain into card drawing, and then using the other replacement to turn a card draw into life gain. Nefarious Lich will not replace the life gain with a card draw again because it has already acted on this event."

— 2004-10-04

Price History

91d · USD
$3.64▲ 13.0%

Tracks this card’s preferred printing: the old-border edition shown by default (block-expansion printings first, e.g. Urza’s, Tempest, Mirage). It doesn’t re-price when you select a different edition above. Per-edition history is planned.

$3.64$3.43$3.22
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