First printed in Odyssey (2001)
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.
MTGO price: 0.09 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
Combos
12 combos from Commander Spellbook, the most popular first.
- Target opponent loses the game: Despotic Scepter + Harmless Offering + Nefarious Lich
- Target opponent loses the game: Harmless Offering + Nefarious Lich + Staff of Compleation
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers: Nefarious Lich + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Nefarious Lich + Queza, Augur of Agonies
- Target opponent loses the game: Donate + Nefarious Lich + Staff of Compleation
- Target opponent loses the game: Despotic Scepter + Donate + Nefarious Lich
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Nefarious Lich + Shabraz, the Skyshark
- Target opponent loses the game: Despotic Scepter + Nefarious Lich + Role Reversal
- Target opponent loses the game: Despotic Scepter + Nefarious Lich + Zedruu the Greathearted
- Target opponent loses the game: Nefarious Lich + Staff of Compleation + Zedruu the Greathearted
Legality
Constructed
- Standard Not legal
- Pioneer Not legal
- Modern Not legal
- Legacy Legal
- Vintage Legal
- Pauper Not legal
- Future Standard Not legal
- Historic Not legal
- Timeless Not legal
- Alchemy Not legal
- Penny Dreadful Not legal
- Premodern Legal
- Old School 93/94 Not legal
Singleton
- Gladiator Not legal
Commander formats
- Commander Legal
- Duel Commander Legal
- Pauper Commander Not legal
- PreDH Legal
- Tiny Leaders Not legal
- Oathbreaker Legal
- Brawl Not legal
- Standard Brawl Not legal
- Competitive Brawl Not legal