Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Combos with Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

• Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper Ashnod's Altar Chromatic Orrery Infinite
  • Infinite card draw
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite colorless mana
  • Infinite draw triggers
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite magecraft triggers
  • Infinite mill
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite self-mill
  • Infinite storm count
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• Rosethorn Acolyte // Seasonal Ritual Ashnod's Altar Swarm Intelligence Infinite
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite colorless mana
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite magecraft triggers
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite storm count
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• Isochron Scepter Pull from Eternity Rise of the Eldrazi Infinite
  • Infinite turns
  • Lock
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• Leyline of Sanctity Sky Swallower Fractured Identity Infinite
  • Gain control of all permanents
  • Mass Land Denial
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• Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper Ashnod's Altar Mycosynth Lattice Infinite
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite magecraft triggers
  • Infinite mill
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite self-mill
  • Infinite storm count
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
• Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper Phyrexian Altar Desecrated Tomb Infinite
  • Infinite creature tokens
  • Infinite mill
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite death triggers
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

12 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

• 2025-06-06

  A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

• 2025-06-06

  If a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.

• 2025-06-06

  You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

• 2025-06-06

  "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard if the resulting spell is an instant or sorcery spell by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."

• 2025-06-06

  To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

• 2025-06-06

  If a card with no mana cost gains flashback, it has no flashback cost. It can't be cast this way.

• 2025-06-06

  If you cast an instant or sorcery with X in its mana cost this way, you still choose the value of X as part of casting the spell and pay that cost.

• 2025-06-06

  If you cast a spell with flashback, you can't pay any alternative costs such as overload costs. You can pay additional costs such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell with flashback.

• 2025-06-06

  If a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.

• 2025-06-06

  You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

• 2025-06-06

  If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

• 2025-10-02

  Lier's last ability allows you to cast adventurer cards in your graveyard as Adventures and omen cards in your graveyard as Omens using the flashback it grants. This is because the alternative characteristics of those cards are considered when determining whether or not those spells can legally be cast. Note that only the Adventure or Omen can be cast this way. For example, if you control Lier and you have Bonecrusher Giant in your graveyard, you can cast Stomp with flashback, but not Bonecrusher Giant.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Lier, Disciple of the Drowned, whatever its commander.