First printed in Dominaria (2018)
All 2 prints
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Dominaria (DOM) #98, 2018
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Dominaria Promos (PDOM) #98s, 2018
Lich's Mastery 
Legendary Enchantment
Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.
- Illustrated by
- Daarken
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (5)
- If you’re dealt more damage than you have cards to exile, you’ll just exile everything you can.
- While you can’t lose the game, your opponents can still win the game if an effect says so.
- You don’t have to exile all the cards from one place. For example, if a source deals 5 damage to you, you may exile one permanent, two cards from hand, and two cards from your graveyard.
- If you run out of other permanents, cards in hand, and cards in graveyard, you’ll have to exile Lich’s Mastery itself and lose the game.
- While you control Lich’s Mastery, your life total still changes. Lich’s Mastery’s effects don’t replace the life gain or life loss.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
Combos
43 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Lich's Mastery + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Lich's Mastery + Queza, Augur of Agonies
- Draw the game: Lich's Mastery + Transcendence
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Lich's Mastery + Shabraz, the Skyshark
- Infinite draw triggers, Infinite looting…: Feast of Sanity + Lich's Mastery
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Faith of the Devoted + Lich's Mastery + Skirge Familiar
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Lich's Mastery + Skirge Familiar + Words of Worship
- Infinite turns, Lock: Final Fortune + Isochron Scepter + Lich's Mastery
- Target opponent loses the game: Harmless Offering + Lich's Mastery + Shadowspear
- Infinite card draw: Horizon Chimera + Lich's Mastery