Demilich
- Mana cost
- {U}{U}{U}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Skeleton Wizard
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 3
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms #366 (mythic)
- Price
- $1.40 USD
This spell costs {U} less to cast for each instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn.
Whenever this creature attacks, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy.
You may cast this card from your graveyard by exiling four instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard in addition to paying its other costs.
Demilich has 7 printings, first in Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (2021). EDHREC ranks it #16,836 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time decks (102 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Demilich most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time: 102 decks
- Mathise, Surge Channeler: 38 decks
- Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake: 38 decks
- Errant, Street Artist: 23 decks
- Helmut Zemo, Mastermind: 4 decks
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
Often played with Demilich
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
- Skeletal Swarming
- Corpses of the Lost
- Disruptor Pistol
- Death Tyrant
- Altar of the Wretched
- Case of the Stashed Skeleton
- Wizard's Spellbook
- Curious Homunculus
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
- Octavia, Living Thesis
Rulings
- : If you exile a card as the triggered ability resolves, that card will remain exiled whether you cast the copy or not.
- : Casting the copy happens as part of the resolution of Demilich's triggered ability. If you choose to cast it, you must do so right away. If you choose not to cast it right away, the copy ceases to exist the next time a player would receive priority.
- : While casting Demilich, if you are required to pay an additional cost that includes a generic mana component, Demilich's cost reduction effect can apply to it. For example, if you're required to pay an additional {1} to cast Demilich (perhaps because of Sphere of Resistance), and you've cast five or more instant and/or sorcery spells this turn, you would pay {0} to cast Demilich.
- : You must pay all normal costs for casting the copy.
- : Demilich's last ability doesn't change when you can cast it. In most cases, you can cast Demilich only during your main phase.