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Masters Edition IV (ME4 | #89 | 2011-01-10)
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Lich

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Enchantment
Artist: Daniel Gelon

As this enchantment enters, you lose life equal to your life total.

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.

If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead.

Whenever you're dealt damage, sacrifice that many nontoken permanents. If you can't, you lose the game.

When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose the game.

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$30.08 cheapest print

Prices

Set # Treatment Finish Price (USD)
30th Anniversary Edition 110 Regular Nonfoil $64.33
Unlimited Edition 114 Regular Nonfoil $144.90
Collectors' Edition 114 Regular Nonfoil $40.00
Intl. Collectors' Edition 114 Regular Nonfoil $30.08

Price History

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Printings (8)

Lich — Masters Edition IV
Masters Edition IV
#89 Rare —
Regular Nonfoil Foil
Daniel Gelon
Lich — 30th Anniversary Edition
30th Anniversary Edition
#110 Rare $64.33
Regular Nonfoil
Daniel Gelon
Lich — Limited Edition Alpha
Limited Edition Alpha
#113 Rare —
Regular Nonfoil
Daniel Gelon
Lich — Unlimited Edition
Unlimited Edition
#114 Rare $144.90
Regular Nonfoil
Daniel Gelon
Lich — Collectors' Edition
Collectors' Edition
#114 Rare $40.00
Regular Nonfoil
Daniel Gelon
Lich — Intl. Collectors' Edition
Intl. Collectors' Edition
#114 Rare $30.08
Regular Nonfoil
Daniel Gelon
Lich — Limited Edition Beta
Limited Edition Beta
#114 Rare —
Regular Nonfoil
Daniel Gelon
Lich — 30th Anniversary Edition
30th Anniversary Edition
#407 Rare —
Regular Nonfoil
Daniel Gelon

Rulings

2011-01-01 wotc
The last ability will cause you to lose the game even if you somehow manage to have a life total greater than 0 at the time the Lich is put into the graveyard or if some other effect would prevent you from losing for having 0 life. If, on the other hand, some effect such as that from Platinum Angel says that you can't lose the game then even the last ability of the Lich cannot cause you to do so. The ability will just resolve and the game will continue as normal.
2010-08-15 wotc
The last ability will cause you to lose the game even if you somehow manage to have a life total greater than 0 at the time the Lich leaves the battlefield or if some other effect would prevent you from losing for having 0 life. If, on the other hand, some effect such as that from Platinum Angel says that you can't lose the game then even the last ability of the Lich cannot cause you to do so. The ability will just resolve and the game will continue as normal.
2010-08-15 wotc
Note that usually you will have 0 or less life at the time Lich leaves the battlefield causing you to lose as a State-Based Action before the last ability can even go on the stack.
2004-10-04 wotc
You can't pay life, just like any player at less than one life can't pay life. You can pay zero life if you want.
2004-10-04 wotc
You can lose life and take damage, and thereby have a negative life total, while Lich is on the battlefield.
2004-10-04 wotc
If you take more than one damage at a time, sacrifice the permanents for that damage simultaneously. This allows you to sacrifice both a creature and any Aura that is on it all at once.
2004-10-04 wotc
If you have multiple Lich cards on the battlefield, you must sacrifice a permanent for each damage done to you for each Lich. This is because the sacrifice is a triggered ability. But you only draw one card for each life gained regardless of how many Liches you have. This is because the draw is a replacement effect and not a triggered one. You lose if any one of the Liches leaves the battlefield.
2004-10-04 wotc
If an opponent steals control of Lich, their life total does not change. The life total changes for a player only when it enters under that player's control.
2004-10-04 wotc
If an opponent steals control of Lich and no other effect prevents you from losing with a life total of zero, you will lose the game due to a zero life total as a State-Based Action before you can take any actions. The last sentence doesn't apply in this case since the Lich didn't leave the battlefield.

Format Legality

Standard Not Legal
Future Not Legal
Historic Not Legal
Timeless Not Legal
Gladiator Not Legal
Pioneer Not Legal
Modern Not Legal
Legacy Legal
Pauper Not Legal
Vintage Legal
Penny Not Legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standardbrawl Not Legal
Brawl Not Legal
Alchemy Not Legal
Paupercommander Not Legal
Duel Legal
Oldschool Legal
Premodern Not Legal
Predh Legal