Lady Liliana Vess
My love for Lili has been long and unending. She is strong, beautiful, and masterful. I have had a Lili Tribal EDH deck for many years. Originally helmed by Chainer, Dementia Master. Built solely on being a reanimator deck. Even after Origins Lili I kept Chainer in charge. But then WotC had Lili focus on Zombie tribal. Eventually gave in and now have Lili Heretical Healer commanding the deck. To get value out of most of the Lili 'Walker cards I had to restructure the deck. Lili's key focuses are:
Discard
Reanimate
Removal
Luckily there are a handful of cards that force and reward opponents discarding and sacrificing. Chief among them is Tergrid, God of Fright.
I know the deck can be mean. That's part of the fun. That's part of Lili's charm. Though the low land count does bite me in the ass often. But the offset is that I ignore high costs because I can reanimate the big ones. As well as people ignore Dark Realms long enough I can get that emblem. I hope to get a Cabal Coffers for her. But right now Cabal Stronghold works just fine since I only run basic Swamps.
With each new set I look for cards to go into my decks. Only find a few for Lili these days. Though a couple of my dream cards for this deck are the ones with Lili art, Snuff Out and Demonic Tutor. Anyways, here is my Lili Tribal deck Lili Defies Death.
